Extending Everyday Practices in the Home with Connected Things

通过互联事物扩展家庭日常实践

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-04782
• 负责人: Wakkary, Ron
• 金额: $ 1.89万
• 依托单位: Simon Fraser University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=710843
• 关键词: Extending; Everyday; Practices; Home; Connected

Over time we select diverse collections of household things. These “things” are important since we rely on them to make our everyday lives purposeful and meaningful. The diverse belongings are integral to our daily routines and practices. They often go beyond their intended design to be adapted to serve new purposes like a fruit bowl near the door for keys, an armchair to place your purse, a mirror with a grocery list tucked into the frame. These belongings are vital to coordinating, organizing, and sharing in our home. They also find personal, historical and habitual uses that are not designed for efficiency or convenience. It is important that these belongings are simple, flexible, and easily appropriated by us for new uses to serve our precise, unique needs and desires. Given the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), digital technologies are increasingly becoming a part of our homes. However, the complexity, rigid functionality, and device-like designs of these technologies strongly limit our ability to customize and adapt them to fit our needs. This research investigates the design of household objects with embedded technologies and connectivity made of everyday materials. These are designed to leverage human intelligence through everyday routines and practices and to combine digital with non-digital functionality. For example, the pale yellow ceramic bowl next to your door tilted left on its own when you put your keys in it and remains that way signaling you do not have your keys in hand. While the smaller blue bowl on the kitchen counter that held your phone has leveled itself showing you removed the phone and put it in your bag. The wooden clock in the hallway gently chimes signaling that your neighbor has left her house and is on her way over to walk your children to school together. Thankfully, the weave of your favourite basket holding umbrellas is now more open signaling no rain today! These everyday things are simple, intelligible forms requiring no interface while remaining open to potential alternative digital and non-digital uses. This approach provides resourcefulness through domestic technology that beneficially leverages human practices. This research develops a technical platform of things with embedded technologies and networking. We will use this platform to investigate mulitple case study applications of different user-driven applications in the home. Each case study examines the balance and relationships between digital and non-digital functionality, the challenges of a limited user interface and non-traditional interactions, and the need for transparency and privacy when designing connected technologies for homes. The research will advance theory, create design exemplars, extend digital fabrication in HCI research, and provide a toolkit for connected everyday things. Findings will lead to greater integration and quality of user adoption, and long-term sustainable use.

随着时间的流逝，我们选择了家用物品的潜水员收藏。这些“事物”很重要，因为我们依靠它们使我们的日常生活有目的和有意义。潜水员物品是我们日常工作和实践不可或缺的一部分。他们通常超越了他们的意图设计，可以适应新的目的，例如钥匙门附近的水果碗，扶手椅放置您的钱包，镜子，上面放着杂货清单，藏在框架中。这些物品对于在我们的家中进行协调，组织和共享至关重要。他们还发现个人，历史和习惯用途不是为了效率或便利而设计的。重要的是，这些物品是简单，灵活的，并且很容易被我们使用，以满足我们精确，独特的需求和欲望的新用途。鉴于物联网（IoT）的出现，数字技术越来越多地成为我们房屋的一部分。但是，这些技术的复杂性，刚性功能和类似设备的设计极大地限制了我们自定义和适应它们以满足我们需求的能力。 这项研究通过嵌入式技术和每天材料制成的连通性调查了家庭对象的设计。这些旨在通过日常的常规和实践来利用人类智能，并将数字功能与非数字功能相结合。例如，当您将钥匙放入其中并保持这种方式发出信号时，您没有钥匙时，浅黄色的陶瓷碗自行向左倾斜。当厨房柜台上的较小的蓝色碗固定您的手机时，您已经平整了自己的手机，表明您卸下了手机并将其放入包中。走廊上的木制时钟轻轻地鸣叫，表明您的邻居离开了她的房子，并在她的路上带您的孩子们一起上学。值得庆幸的是，现在您最喜欢的篮子的编织雨伞现在更开放的信号，今天没有下雨！这些每天都是简单，可理解的形式，不需要界面，同时又对潜在的替代数字和非数字用途开放。这种方法通过国内技术提供了充分利用人类实践的国内技术的机智。 这项研究通过嵌入式技术和网络开发了一个技术平台。我们将使用此平台调查家庭中不同用户驱动应用程序的多个案例研究应用程序。每个案例研究都会检查数字和非数字功能之间的平衡和关系，有限的用户界面和非传统互动的挑战，以及在设计房屋的连接技术时对透明度和隐私的需求。这项研究将推进理论，创建设计典范，扩展HCI研究中的数字制造，并为每天连接的工具包提供一个工具包。调查结果将导致用户采用和长期可持续使用的更大整合和质量。