Technology and the Home: Supporting Cooperative Analysis of the Design Space
Andy Crabtree, Tom A. Rodden · 2002
The home is a complex and as yet poorly understood environment. Methods developed to analyze the workplace seem inappropriate to the study of domestic life. As a result, a variety of new approaches and methods are starting to emerge that seek to be sensitive to domestic life. In this paper we present an adapted patterns framework for scoping domestic environments, complimented by targeted ethnographic inquiry. Our aim is to provide a means of explicating a social viewpoint that provides concrete empirical insights and resources for parties to draw upon and use in analyzing the design space.