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Technology biographies: field study techinques for home use product development

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CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

POSTER SESSION: Interactive Posters table of contents

Pages: 658 - 659

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-454-1

Authors

Mark Blythe	University of York, York, U.K.
Andrew Monk	University of York, York, U.K.
Jisoo Park	Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea

Sponsors

SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 14, Downloads (12 Months): 73, Citation Count: 8

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ABSTRACT

The technology biography combines and adapts a number of qualitative data collection techniques to focus on past, present and possible future domestic technologies. Processes, concerns and problems of domestic life are identified in order to develop illustrative product suggestions to inspire or provoke designers.

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	1	Petersen, M.G., Baillie, L. Methodologies for Designing Future Household Technologies. Oikos2001, Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, Denmark.
	2	Flanagan, J.C. The Critical Incident Technique Psychological Bulletin 51, 327--358 1954.
	3	Gaver et al. Cultural Probes. Interactions: New Visions of Human Computer Interaction. Vol 1 Jan & Feb 1999.
	4	Robinson, J and Godbey, G. Time for Life The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
	5	Csikszentmihalyi M. Beyond Boredom and Anxiety. Jossey Bass Publishers, 1975.

CITED BY 8

	Mark Blythe , Andrew Monk, Notes towards an ethnography of domestic technology, Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques, June 25-28, 2002, London, England
	Kristen Shinohara , Josh Tenenberg, Observing Sara: a case study of a blind person's interactions with technology, Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility, October 15-17, 2007, Tempe, Arizona, USA
	Kristen Shinohara, Designing assistive technology for blind users, Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility, October 23-25, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA
	Jisoo Park , Mark Blythe , Andrew Monk , David Grayson, Sharable digital TV: relating ethnography to design through un-useless product suggestions, CHI '06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 22-27, 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada
	Kirsten Boehner , Janet Vertesi , Phoebe Sengers , Paul Dourish, How HCI interprets the probes, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 28-May 03, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
	Jeni Paay , Leon Sterling , Frank Vetere , Steve Howard , Anne Boettcher, Engineering the social: The role of shared artifacts, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, v.67 n.5, p.437-454, May, 2009
	Peter Wright , John McCarthy, Empathy and experience in HCI, Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 05-10, 2008, Florence, Italy
	Genevieve Bell , Mark Blythe , Phoebe Sengers, Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologies, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), v.12 n.2, p.149-173, June 2005

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
enjoyability, field study, methods, usability

Collaborative Colleagues:

Mark Blythe: colleagues

Andrew Monk: colleagues

Jisoo Park: colleagues

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