Abstract
This paper presents the constructive design research (CDR) of smart domestic environments comprised of smart home infrastructure, smart domestic artifacts and digital services. CDR is an approach that focuses on imagining futures and learning through the making and testing of prototypes to construct new knowledge about how people engage with the world. While the body of research on smart domestic environments includes a wealth of human-centered research, the use of CDR is marginal. Our work demonstrates how such a process engages residents in activities to imagine why people might value smart domestic environments and how they might want to interact with them. Through goal setting activities, paper prototyping, and field-testing of resident designed technology probes, we present use cases, design principles and experiential insights. After sharing these findings, we introduce the emergence of smart domestic environments as possessing persuasive, personified and artful qualities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 3083-3092 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 2015-April |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450331456 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 18 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 18 2015 → Apr 23 2015 |
Other
Other | 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 |
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Country | Korea, Republic of |
City | Seoul |
Period | 4/18/15 → 4/23/15 |
Keywords
- Constructive design
- Domestic technologies
- Internet of things
- Participatory design
- Persuasive technologies
- Prototyping
- Smart homes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Software