Making the Home Network at Home: Digital Housekeeping
Making the Home Network at Home: Digital Housekeeping
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在家打造家庭网络：数字管家
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2007
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S. Benford
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P. Tolmie;Andy Crabtree;T. Rodden;C. Greenhalgh;S. Benford
本文利用人种学研究结果，以 Grinter 等人 2005 年“让家庭网络发挥作用的工作”的研究为基础并对其进行了详细阐述。我们特别关注涉及建立和维护家庭网络的工作，我们将其称为“数字管家”。我们的研究表明，正是通过数字家政，家庭网络才被“在家制造”，或者成为家庭生活中一个不起眼的常规特征。数字家务“完成”的有序方式阐述了一种独特的“社会机制”，突出了对家庭网络技术持续发展的一些重要影响。其中包括要求设计人员考虑现有基础设施，并高度重视未来技术如何融入现有惯例。家庭成员专注于使家庭网络变得透明和负责，以便可以进行实际推理，这表明设计人员还应该考虑开发专用管理界面来支持数字家政。
This paper exploits ethnographic findings to build on and elaborate Grinter et al’s 2005 study of “the work to make the home network work”. We focus particularly on the work involved in setting up and maintaining home networks, which we characterize as ‘digital housekeeping’. Our studies reveal that it is through digital housekeeping that the home network is ‘made at home’ or made into an unremarkable and routine feature of domestic life. The orderly ways in which digital housekeeping ‘gets done’ elaborate a distinct ‘social machinery’ that highlights some important implications for the continued development of network technologies for the home. These include a requirement that designers take existing infrastructure into account and pay considerable attention to how future technologies may be incorporated into existing routines. The preoccupation of household members with making the home network transparent and accountable so that it is available to practical reasoning suggests designers should also consider the development of dedicated management interfaces to support digital housekeeping.