Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic'of the home

Salu Ylirisku; Siân Lindley; Giulio Jacucci; Richard Banks; Craig Stewart; Abigail Sellen; Richard Harper; Tim Regan

doi:10.1145/2470654.2466117

Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic'of the home

Salu Ylirisku, Siân Lindley, Giulio Jacucci, Richard Banks, Craig Stewart, Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper, Tim Regan

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Abstract

Web-based technologies are often built to capitalize on the flexibility and fluidity that is supported by the internet, with the value of 'access anywhere'underpinning a blurring of boundaries across home and work. Yet the home is well known in HCI to have a unique set of qualities that can usefully be drawn upon when designing to support domestic life. In this paper we ask what it means to design domestic web-connected technologies, placing the aesthetic and material properties intrinsic to the home and home life at the centre of our design exploration. We present three concepts that were selected and prototyped from a broader process of research-through-design: Tokens of Search provides tangible handles to web resources; Hole in Space connects the home intimately to a remote place; and Manhattan enables the tangible exploration of events in the community, putting the home at the centre. Discussions in the paper consider not only how aesthetics is articulated in the material and digital properties of the artefacts, but also how a consideration of the properties of the home can create a potentially new design space to explore.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2013
Subtitle of host publication	Changing Perspectives, Conference Proceedings - The 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pages	909-918
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466117
Publication status	Published - 2013
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33 https://chi2015.acm.org/

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/2015 → 23/04/2015
Internet address	https://chi2015.acm.org/

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Domestic
Research through design
Search
Tangible

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Ylirisku, S, Lindley, S, Jacucci, G, Banks, R, Stewart, C, Sellen, A, Harper, R & Regan, T 2013, Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic'of the home. in CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives, Conference Proceedings - The 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 909-918, ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466117

Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic'of the home. / Ylirisku, Salu; Lindley, Siân; Jacucci, Giulio; Banks, Richard; Stewart, Craig; Sellen, Abigail; Harper, Richard; Regan, Tim.

CHI 2013: Changing Perspectives, Conference Proceedings - The 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013. p. 909-918.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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