Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective

Cayla Key, Fiona Browne, Nick Taylor, Jon Rogers

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    Abstract

    As the internet is increasingly embedded in the everyday things in our homes, we notice a need for greater focus on the role care plays in those relationships—and therefore an opportunity to realize un- seen potential in reimagining home Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper we report on our inquiry of home dwellers’ relationships to caring for their everyday things and homes (referred to as thing- care). Findings from our design ethnography reveal four thematic qualities of their relationships to thingcare: Care Spectacle, Care Liminality, Ontological Binding, and Care Condition. Using these themes as touchstones, we co-speculated to produce four specula- tive IoT concepts to explore what care as a design ethic might look like for IoT and reflect on nascent opportunities and challenges for domestic IoT design. We conclude by considering structures of power and privilege embedded within care practices that critically open new design imaginaries for IoT.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    Subtitle of host publicationMaking Waves, Combining Strengths
    EditorsYoshifumi Kitamura, Aaron Quigley, Katherine Isbister, Takeo Igarashi, Pernille Bjørn, Steven Drucker
    Place of PublicationNew York, US
    PublisherACM
    Pages1-15
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450380966
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 6 May 2021
    Event2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Japan
    Duration: 8 May 202113 May 2021

    Publication series

    NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityVirtual, Online
    Period8/05/2113/05/21

    Keywords

    • Internet of things
    • home
    • design ethnography
    • research-through-design
    • care
    • care ethics
    • things
    • smart home

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