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Technology biographies: field study techinques for home use product development
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
User Study Techniques in the Design and Evaluation of a Ubicomp Environment
UbiComp '02 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Notes towards an ethnography of domestic technology
DIS '02 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
The fuzzy felt ethnography—understanding the programming patterns of domestic appliances
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Technology as Experience
Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologies
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Service robots in the domestic environment: a study of the roomba vacuum in the home
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction
Designing speculative household cleaning products for older adults
DUX '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience
The work to make a home network work
ECSCW'05 Proceedings of the ninth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cognitive partnerships on the bench top: designing to support scientific researchers
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
Anchored mobilities: mobile technology and transnational migration
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
UbiComp '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Values as lived experience: evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning by seeing: photo viewing in the workplace
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Acceptance of Domestic Ambient Intelligence Appliances by Prospective Users
Pervasive '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
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Ubicomp developers are increasingly borrowing from other disciplines, such as anthropology and creative design, to inform their design process. In this paper, we demonstrate that the discipline of history similarly has much to offer ubicomp research. Specifically, we describe a historically-grounded approach to designing ubicomp systems and applications for the home. We present findings from a study examining aging and housework that demonstrate how our approach can be useful to sensitize ubicomp developers to the impact of cultural values on household technology, to reunderstand the home space, and to spur development of new design spaces. Our findings suggest that historically-grounded research approaches may be useful in more deeply understanding and designing for context both in and outside of the home.