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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves table of contents

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

SESSION: Ubiquity table of contents

Pages: 399 - 406

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-453-3

Authors

Peter Tolmie	Xerox Research Centre Europe, Cambridge, UK
James Pycock	Xerox Research Centre Europe, Cambridge, UK
Tim Diggins	Xerox Research Centre Europe, Cambridge, UK
Allan MacLean	Xerox Research Centre Europe, Cambridge, UK
Alain Karsenty	Xerox Research Centre Europe, Cambridge, UK

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we seek to contribute to the Ubiquitous Computing agenda by focusing on one of its earliest, but most difficult, design ambitions - making technology "invisible in use". We draw on field studies of domestic life as this domain is becoming increasingly important for new technologies and challenges many of the assumptions we take for granted in the design of technologies for the workplace. We use some examples of domestic routines to identify a number of insights into what it means for features of activities to be "unremarkable". We conclude by using these insights to critique some of the current emphases in Ubiquitous Computing research, and suggest how we might better understand the HCI issues of what will be required to develop technologies that really are "invisible in use"

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