Paper Info
Title
The Upcycled Home: Removing Barriers to Lightweight Modification of the Home's Everyday Objects
Abstract
The Internet-of-things (IoT) embeds computing in everyday objects, but has largely focused on new devices while ignoring the home's many existing possessions. We present a field study with 10 American families to understand how these possessions could be included in the smart home through upcycling. We describe three patterns for how families collaborate around home responsibilities; we explore families' mental models of home that may be in tension with existing IoT systems; and we identify ways that families can more easily imagine a smart home that includes their existing possessions. These insights can help us design an upcycled approach to IoT that supports users in reconfiguring objects (and social roles as mediated by objects) in a way that is sensitive to what will be displaced, discarded, or made obsolete. Our findings inform the design of future lightweight systems for the upcycled home.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3313831.3376314
CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honolulu HI USA April, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6708-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kristin Williams1195.30
Rajitha Pulivarthy210.34
Scott Hudson36564910.06
Jessica Hammer46825.95