Computers and other interactive technologies for the home
Communications of the ACM
Engineering ethnography in the home
Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '94 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
At home with the technology: an ethnographic study of a set-top-box trial
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
First Steps in Programming: A Rationale for Attention Investment Models
HCC '02 Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02)
Troubles with the internet: the dynamics of help at home
Human-Computer Interaction
The television will be revolutionized: effects of PVRs and filesharing on television watching
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Augmenting refrigerator magnets: why less is sometimes more
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Consuming video on mobile devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Anchored mobilities: mobile technology and transnational migration
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
How do we program the home? Gender, attention investment, and the psychology of programming at home
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Unpacking the television: User practices around a changing technology
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Making love in the network closet: the benefits and work of family videochat
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The roles that make the domestic work
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Yours, mine and ours? sharing and use of technology in domestic environments
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
How smart homes learn: the evolution of the networked home and household
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
DisQo: a user needs analysis method for smart home
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
Rhythms and plasticity: television temporality at home
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The state of the art in end-user software engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Home automation in the wild: challenges and opportunities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning sustainability: families, learning, and next-generation eco-feedback technology
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
A theoretical agenda for feminist HCI
Interacting with Computers
PERVASIVE'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Pervasive Computing
Principles of smart home control
UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Digitality and materiality of new media: online TV watching in china
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pervasive'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Pervasive Computing
Making technology homey: finding sources of satisfaction and meaning in home automation
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
HomeLab: shared infrastructure for home technology field studies
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
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Domestic ubicomp applications often assume individual users will program and configure their technology in isolation, decoupled from complex domestic environments in which they are situated. To investigate this assumption, we conducted a two week study of VCR use by eight families. Each household member old enough to write completed a diary, interviews were conducted before and after, and information on demographics and appliance ownership was collected. Our key finding supports the notion of the domestic economy and the trading of programming expertise. We use the Attention Investment paradigm, and discuss how the model fits with multi-user programming situations. We discuss the importance of the parent v/s child roles in VCR use, as well as, the tension between direct manipulation (e.g. pressing record) and programming ahead of time. We propose that future work on end user programming must focus on the household as a domestic system rather than on the individual.