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Surfacing Small Worlds through Data-In-Place
We present findings from a five-week deployment of voting technologies in a city neighbourhood. Drawing on Marres’ (2012) work on material participation and Massey’s (2005) conceptualisation of space as dynamic, ...
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Article
Experiencing the Affective Diary
A diary is generally considered to be a book in which one keeps a regular record of events and experiences that have some personal significance. As such, it provides a useful means to privately express inner t...
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Supporting Family Awareness with the Whereabouts Clock
We report the results of a field trial of a situated awareness device for families called the “Whereabouts Clock”. The Clock displays the location of family members using cellphone data as one of four privacy-...
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Article
Homes that make us smart
In this article we consider what it should mean to build “smartness” or “intelligence” into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who imbue their homes with intelligence by continuall...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Containing Family Clutter
In this paper, we present material from an ongoing ethnographic investigation of family life. Drawing on selected fieldwork materials, we look at the ways families deal with household clutter, and in particula...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock
We report the results of a long-term, multi-site field trial of a situated awareness device for families called the “Whereabouts Clock”. The Clock displayed family members’ current location as one of four priv...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing family photo displays
We present efforts to explore the relatively underdeveloped area of digital photo display. Using examples from two empirical studies with family homes, we develop our results around three broad themes related ...
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Gift of the Gab
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An SMS History
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The Gift of the Gab?: A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles
This paper reports ethnographically informedobservations of the use of mobile phones andtext messaging services amongst young people.It offers a sociological explanation for thepopularity of text messaging and...