Abstract
Ethnographic studies of the home revealed the fundamental roles that
physical locations and context play in how household members understand and
manage conventional information. Yet we also know that digital information is
becoming increasing important to households. The problem is that this digital
information is almost always tied to traditional computer displays, which
inhibits its incorporation into household routines. Our solution, called
location-dependant information appliances, exploits both home location and
context (as articulated in ethnographic studies) to enhance the role of
ambient displays in the home setting; these displays provide home occupants
with both background awareness of an information source and foreground
methods to gain further details if desired. The novel aspect is that home
occupants assign particular information to locations within a home in a way
that makes sense to them. As a device is moved to a particular location, that
information is automatically mapped to that device along with hints on how it
should be displayed.
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