Homework: Shaping Future User Centred Domestic Infrastructures

作业：塑造未来以用户为中心的国内基础设施

• 批准号: EP/F064276/1
• 负责人: Tom Rodden
• 金额: $ 68.25万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF064276%2F1
• 关键词: Homework; Shaping; Future; User; Centred

Over 300 million people worldwide have broadband connections to the Internet, and in many of these households an in-home network is used not only to allow multiple computers to share the connection to the Internet, but also to enable media sharing, gaming, and other new applications. Users increasingly wish to integrate portable digital devices into these networks including mobile phones, PDAs, web cameras and audio devices through a shared infrastructure. However, despite the rapid uptake in demand for home networking, these technologies remain extraordinarily difficult for people to install, manage, and use. Market reports give a sense of the scale of the problem: home networking equipment is currently the most returned consumer electronics item, with return rates of 20-30%. These devices are being rejected not because they fail on a technical level, but because they force their users to become unwilling (and untrained) network administrators in order to use them.The difficulties inherent in adopting and using home networking technology are rapidly becoming a key roadblock to the deployment of next-generation applications in communication, healthcare, and entertainment. One reason for this is that the current suite of Internet protocols and architectures has migrated to the home with little or no reflection of their appropriateness. The original design choices of the Internet were made in a world of highly trained, trusted, and motivated administrators tasked with the upkeep of the network, a situation that does not exist in the home. The net result is a mismatch between the nature of the home and the digital infrastructure placed within it. The currrent technology-centric models of the infrastructure have no resonance with the understanding employed by users to make sense of their home networks. This proposal builds upon extensive empirical studies charting the mismatch between current networking technology and the needs of the domestic setting undertaken both in the UK and the US over the last four years to reinvent the domestic infrastructure. This requires an interdisciplinary partnership between those who design 'end user' technology and interaction, and those who seek to realise future digital infrastructures in order to allow users greater control and ownership of the networks in their homes.Within this proposal we will investigate the creation of entirely new domestic network architectures that reflect the sociotechnical nature of the home by taking into account both human and technical considerations. We will explore network architectures that might sacrifice scalability in favour of installability, evolvability, and maintainability. In order to do so we will work closely with a range of partner homes in the UK and the US for the duration of the project.

全球有超过3亿人拥有互联网宽带连接，在许多家庭中，家庭网络不仅用于允许多台计算机共享互联网连接，还用于实现媒体共享，游戏和其他新应用程序。用户越来越希望通过共享的基础设施将便携式数字设备集成到这些网络中，包括移动的电话、PDA、网络摄像机和音频设备。然而，尽管对家庭网络的需求迅速增长，但这些技术对于人们来说仍然非常难以安装、管理和使用。市场报告显示了问题的严重性：家庭网络设备是目前退货率最高的消费电子产品，退货率为20- 30%。这些设备被拒绝不是因为它们在技术层面上失败，而是因为它们迫使用户为了使用它们而成为不情愿的（未经培训的）网络管理员。采用和使用家庭网络技术所固有的困难正在迅速成为部署下一代通信、医疗保健和娱乐应用的主要障碍。其中一个原因是，目前的互联网协议和架构套件已经迁移到家庭，很少或根本没有反映其适当性。互联网最初的设计选择是在一个训练有素、值得信赖和积极主动的管理员的世界里做出的，他们的任务是维护网络，而这种情况在家庭中是不存在的。最终的结果是家庭的性质和数字基础设施之间的不匹配。当前以技术为中心的基础设施模型与用户理解其家庭网络的理解没有共鸣。这项建议建立在广泛的实证研究的基础上，这些研究描绘了英国和美国在过去四年中为重塑国内基础设施而进行的当前网络技术与国内环境需求之间的不匹配。这就需要那些设计“最终用户”技术和交互的人之间建立跨学科的伙伴关系，以及那些寻求实现未来数字基础设施，以便让用户更好地控制和拥有家庭网络的人。在本提案中，我们将研究创建全新的家庭网络架构，该架构通过考虑人和技术，反映家庭的社会技术性质注意事项。我们将探讨可能牺牲可扩展性而支持可安装性、可演进性和可维护性的网络架构。为了做到这一点，我们将在项目期间与英国和美国的一系列合作伙伴密切合作。

项目成果

Control and understanding: Owning your home network

• DOI: 10.1109/comsnets.2012.6151322
• 发表时间: 2012-02
• 期刊: 2012 Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2012)
• 作者: R. Mortier;T. Rodden;T. Lodge;Derek McAuley;Charalampos Rotsos;A. Moore;A. Koliousis;J. Sventek

Unremarkable networking

不起眼的网络

• DOI: 10.1145/2317956.2318039
• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Crabtree A

MultiNet

多网

• DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466208
• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Brown A

Unification of Publish/Subscribe Systems and Stream Databases

发布/订阅系统与流数据库的统一

• 期刊: Unification of Publish/Subscribe Systems and Stream Databases
• 作者: Joseph Sventek (Author)

House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks

众议院规则：国内网络政策的协作性质

• DOI: 10.1007/s00779-014-0771-6
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• 作者: Crabtree A