From Smart House to Smart Home

Here is the syllabus, updated regularly

Everybody

Davidoff, S., Lee, M.K., Zimmerman, J. & Dey, A.K. (2007) Rapidly exploring application design through Speed Dating, to appear in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007.

Carpool coordination

Colbert, M. (2002) A Diary study of rendezvousing: Group size, time pressure and connectivity, in Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2002, 21-35.

Makela, A., Giller, V., Tscheligi. M., Sefelin, R. (2007) When home base is not a place: parents' use of mobile telephones, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11(5), 339-348.

Meal-planning

Mankoff, J., Hsieh, G., Hung, H.C., Lee, S. & and Nitao, E. (2002) Using low-cost sensing to support nutritional awareness, in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, 371-378.

Chi, P., Chen, J., Chu, H., Chen, B.Y. (2007) Enabling nutrition-aware cooking in a smart kitchen, in Proceedings of CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts, 2333-2338.

Activity-based reminders

Dey, A.K., Abowd, G.D. (2000) CybreMinder: A Context-aware system for supporting reminders, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC2K), 172-186.

Ludford, P. J., Frankowski, D., Reily, K., Wilms, K. & Terveen, L. (2006) Because I carry my cell phone anyway: Functional location-based reminder applications, in Proceedings of CHI 2006, 889-898.

Jung, Y., Persson, P., Blom, J. (2005) Dede: Design and evaluation of a context-enhanced mobile messaging system, in Proceedings of CHI 2005, 351-360.

Photo frame

Consolvo, S., Roessler, P., & Shelton, B.E. (2004) The CareNet display: Lessons learned from an in home evaluation of an ambient display, in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2004, 1-18.

Rowan, J., Mynatt, E.D. (2005) Digital Family Portrait field trial: Support for aging in place, in Proceedings of CHI 2005, 521-530.

Garnaes, K., Grunberger, O., Kjeldskov, J. & Skov, M.B. (2007) Designing technologies for presence-in-absence: illustrating the Cube and the Picture Frame,in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11(5), 403-408.

Parent-teen communication

Bienvenu, Sr., M.J. (1969) Measurement of parent-adolescent communication, in The Family Coordinator, 18(2): 117-121.

Makela, A., Giller, V., Tscheligi. M., Sefelin, R. (2000) Joking, storytelling, artsharing, expressing affection: a field trial of how children and their social network communicate with digital images in leisure time, in Proceedings of CHI 2000, 548-555.

Optional

Buchenau, M. & Suri, J.F. (2000) Experience prototyping, in Proceedings of DIS 2000, 424-433.

Oulasvirta, A., Kurvinen, E., Kankainen, T. (2003) Understanding contexts by being there: case studies in bodystorming, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 7(2): 125-134.

Svanaes, D. & Seland, G. (2004) Putting the users center stage: role playing and low-fi prototyping enable end users to design mobile systems, in Proceedings of CHI 2004, 479-486.

Iachello, G., Truong, K.N., Abowd, G.D., Hayes, G.R., Stevens, M. (2006) Prototyping and sampling experience to evaluate ubiquitous computing privacy in the real world, in Proceedings of CHI 2006, 1009-1018.

Isomursu, M., Kuutti, K. & Vainamo, S. (2004) Experience clip: method for user participation and evaluation of mobile concepts, in Proceedings of Participatory Design 2004, 83-92.

Svanaes, D. & Seland, G. (2004) Putting the users center stage: role playing and low-fi prototyping enable end users to design mobile systems, in Proceedings of CHI 2004, 479-486.

Studies of the home

All

Davidoff, S., Lee, M.K., Yiu, C., Zimmerman, J., & Dey, A.K. (2006) Principles of smart home control, in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2006, 19-34.

Groups

Frissen, V.A.J. (2000) ICTs in the rush hour of life, The Information Society, 16:65-75. Summary

Tolmie, P., Pycock, J., Diggins, T., MacLean, A. & Karsenty, A. (2002) Unremarkable computing, in Proceedings of CHI 2002, 399-406. Summary

Crabtree, A. and Rodden, T. (2004) Domestic routines and design for the home, Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, 13(2): 191-220. Summary

Hindus, D., Mainwaring, S.D., Leduc, N., Hagstrom, A.E. & Bayley, O. (2001) Casablanca: Designing social communication devices for the home, in Proceedings of CHI 2001, 325-554. Summary

Leppanen, S & Jokinin, M. (2003) Daily routines and means of communication in a smart home, in Inside the smart home, R. Harper (Ed.), 207-226. Summary

Visions of Ubicomp at home

All

Weiser, M. (1991) Computer for the 21st Century, Scientific American, September 1991, 94-10.

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, E. Munguia Tapia, J. Beaudin, P. Kaushik, J. Nawyn, & R. Rockinson (2006) Using a live-in laboratory for ubiquitous computing research, in Proceedings of Pervasive 2006, LNCS vol. 3968, K. P. Fishkin, B. Schiele, P. Nixon, & A. Quigley (Eds.), Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006, 349-365.

Randall, D. (2003) Living Inside a Smart Home: A Case Study, in Inside the Smart Home, R. Harper (Ed.), 227-246.

Groups

Mayra, F., Soronen, A., Koskinen, I., Kuusela, K., Mikkonen, J., Vanhala, J. & Zakrzewski, M. (2006) Probing a proactive home: Challenges in researching and designing everyday smart environments, Human Technology, 2(2): 159-186. Summary

Grinter, R.E. & Edwards, W.K. (2001) At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges, in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2001, 256-272. Summary

Swan, L., Izadi S., Harper, R., Taylor, A.S., Sellen, A. & Perry M. (2006) Rethinking the "smart" home, in Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, 57-66. Summary

Taylor, A.S. & Swan, L. (2005) Artful systems in the home, in Proceedings of CHI 2005, 641-650. Summary

Aldrich, F.K. (2003) Smart homes: Past present and future, in Inside the Smart Home, R. Harper (Ed.), 17-40. Summary