Lead users: a source of novel product concepts
Management Science
Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Domestic Routines and Design for the Home
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sabbath day home automation: "it's like mixing technology and religion"
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Digital homes on wheels: designing for the unimagined home
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Making place for clutter and other ideas of home
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
UbiComp '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Home awareness: connecting people sensuously to places
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
How designers can make sense of qualitative research findings: a case study
Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
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For many people home making is an activity, which extends beyond a single house. We introduce the terminology of Homing as the act of home making, when in a primary home, secondary home or more temporary spaces. By point of departure in existing literature on home making and through ethnographic studies of extremely mobile people we identify general tactics for homing. We present the identified tactics and show how people deploy not only one but several tactics in their intention of making a homely feeling despite not being in their primary home. We review the mobile technologies currently in use and argue that several of the tactics identified are currently not well supported. We discuss how technology design can learn from this study through pointing to the potential in designing mobile technologies to better support these unsupported tactics. We consider the tactics as a tool for deeper understanding of mobile practices and thus informing the design of more relevant future technologies for people engaged in a mobile lifestyle.