Towards the Unremarkable Computer: Making Technology at Home in Domestic Routine

Rhythms and plasticity: television temporality at home

“…HCI researchers, frequently discuss household activities in terms of routines [20,32,34]. ''Stable and compelling routines'' have been named as a central concern for the design of domestic technologies [8].…”

Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use

“…Tolmie, Pycock et al (2003) comment that families are in fact quite fleeting entities in a physical sense, and that it is (temporal) domestic flows and routines that often hold them together, giving set times for interaction. Studies in the domestic use of time have paid some attention to the use of ICTs, but have in many instances (c.f.…”

“…What portability affords the laptop in the domestic context is the ability to be moved from room to room, and to be put away-to be invisible, and unused. Thus, the use that designers originally envisaged for the laptop has been subverted in the domestic context, because what is achieved by users is computing as 'unremarkable' (Tolmie, Pycock et al, 2003)-and it is this that makes it more 'acceptable' than the desktop because it is less disruptive of existing room codings.…”

“…This paper therefore explores this relationship by drawing on empirical materials derived from a recent qualitative study of the role of laptop computers in domestic energy use. The first section of the paper explores salient conceptual frameworks-there is of course a rich vein of work on domestic consumption that has emphasised: the ways in which ICTs both reproduce and contest existing idealised notions of family, home and identity (Attfield, 2000;Church, Weight et al, 2010;Grint and Gill, 1995;Haddon, 1992;Wacjman, 1991); the affective and sensory dimensions of home consumption (Hadjiyanni & Helle, 2010;Olesen, 2010;Pink 2004); and the temporal ordering of the home (Pantzar, 2010;Southerton, 2006;Tolmie, Pycock et al, 2003;Wacjman, 2008). Practice theory has also generated a timely and apposite body of inter-disciplinary work which links everyday domestic practices and the accomplishment of domestic 'standards' with their underlying energy use (Gran-Hansen, 2010;Hinton, 2010;Ropke, 2009aRopke, , 2009bShove, 2003Shove, , 2006Shove and Southerton, 2000;Wilhite, Nakagami et al, 2001).…”

Ubiquität, Interaktivität, Konvergenz und die Medienbranche

“…Consequently, the corresponding research is mainly looking for the "impact" of the technological change on domestic media consumption and on the household in general. The main approaches and concepts of this research perspective -like "convergence" (Adoni / Nossek 2001;Baldwin et al 1996;Nilsson et al 2001;Silverstone 1995;van Heesvelde 2000), "smart home" (Harper 2003) and "ubiquitous computing" (Tolmie et al 2003;Weiser 1993) -are rather technologically-determinist. In response to this one-sided discussion, social sciences have brought up concepts which stress on the users' contribution to the development.…”