Digital plumbing: the mundane work of deploying UbiComp in the home
Digital plumbing: the mundane work of deploying UbiComp in the home
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数字管道：在家中部署 UbiComp 的平凡工作
DOI：
10.1007/s00779-009-0260-5
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
T. Rodden
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作者：
P. Tolmie;Andy Crabtree;S. Egglestone;J. Humble;C. Greenhalgh;T. Rodden
在真实的家庭中部署UbiComp是实现Weiser“无形”计算宏伟愿景的核心。将设计移出实验室，并使其成为日常生活中一个不起眼的特征是至关重要的。然而，部署可能会有问题，而且一些研究人员已经指出了这一点。在本文中，我们希望补充社区对部署挑战的日益理解。我们专注于“数字管道”-即，在真实的家庭中安装无处不在的计算设备的平凡工作。数字管道是部署行为的特征。它提请注意安装工作：共同定位原型技术在真实的家庭的协作努力，所涉及的能力，遇到的实际问题，以及真实的世界设置对企业的要求。我们提供了一个民族志研究的工作。它使UbiComp研究人员不可避免地需要开发新技术，以适应家庭中现有的技术安排，并开发方法和工具，以支持数字管道工规划和准备变革，管理在实现变革中不可避免地发生的意外事件，以及协调数字管道和保持对变革的意识。
Deploying UbiComp in real homes is central to realizing Weiser’s grand vision of ‘invisible’ computing. It is essential to moving design out of the lab and making it into an unremarkable feature of everyday life. Deployment can be problematic, however, and in ways that a number of researchers have already pointed to. In this paper, we wish to complement the community’s growing understanding of challenges to deployment. We focus on ‘digital plumbing’—i.e., the mundane work involved in installing ubiquitous computing in real homes. Digital plumbing characterizes the act of deployment. It draws attention to the work of installation: to the collaborative effort of co-situating prototypical technologies in real homes, to the competences involved, the practical troubles encountered, and the demands that real world settings place on the enterprise. We provide an ethnographic study of the work. It makes visible the unavoidable need for UbiComp researchers to develop new technologies with respect to existing technological arrangements in the home and to develop methods and tools that support the digital plumber in planning and preparing for change, in managing the contingencies that inevitably occur in realizing change, and in coordinating digital plumbing and maintaining awareness of change.