Sticky Spots and Flower Pots: Two Case Studies in Location-Based Home Technology Design
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2006-04-11
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Ethnographic studies of domestic environments have shown the
fundamental role that contextual locations play in helping people understand
and manage communication information. Yet it is not clear how this knowledge
can be applied to the design of home technologies to effectively support the
routines of home inhabitants. For this reason, we present two case studies in
home technology design that use the results of previous ethnographic studies
on domestic locations to motivate the designs and to make them
location-based. The first case is StickySpots a location-based messaging
system that allows household members to send short digital messages to
various places in their home. The second case is location-dependant
information appliances a pair of physical ambient displays that show
different information depending on where they are placed within the home. We
reflect on these case studies to motivate and discuss an initial set of
guidelines for location-based design in the home.
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Computer Science