Designing culturally situated technologies for the home

Genevieve Bell; Mark Blythe; Bill Gaver; Phoebe Sengers; Peter Wright

doi:10.1145/765891.766149

Designing culturally situated technologies for the home

Genevieve Bell^*, Mark Blythe, Bill Gaver, Phoebe Sengers, Peter Wright

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

As digital technologies proliferate in the home, the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community has turned its attention from the workplace and productivity tools towards domestic design environments and non-utilitarian activities. In the workplace, applications tend to focus on productivity and efficiency and involve relatively well-understood requirements and methodologies, but in domestic design environments we are faced with the need to support new classes of activities. While usability is still central to the field, HCI is beginning to address considerations such as pleasure, fun, emotional effect, aesthetics, the experience of use, and the social and cultural impacts of new technologies. These considerations are particularly relevant to the home, where technologies are situated or embedded within an ecology that is rich with meaning and nuance.The aim of this workshop is to explore ways of designing domestic technology by incorporating an awareness of cultural context, accrued social meanings, and user experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI'03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'03
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1062-1063
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	1581136374, 9781581136371
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/765891.766149
Publication status	Published - 5 Apr 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2003 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL, United States Duration: 5 Apr 2003 → 10 Apr 2003

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2003
Country/Territory	United States
City	Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Period	5/04/03 → 10/04/03

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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Bell, G, Blythe, M, Gaver, B, Sengers, P & Wright, P 2003, Designing culturally situated technologies for the home. in CHI'03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'03. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, ACM, New York, pp. 1062-1063, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, United States, 5/04/03. https://doi.org/10.1145/765891.766149

Designing culturally situated technologies for the home. / Bell, Genevieve; Blythe, Mark; Gaver, Bill et al.
CHI'03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'03. New York: ACM, 2003. p. 1062-1063 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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