Extending Everyday Practices in the Home with Connected Things

随着时间的推移，我们选择了各种家居用品。这些“东西”很重要，因为我们依赖它们让我们的日常生活变得有目的和有意义。多样化的物品是我们日常生活和实践中不可或缺的一部分。它们往往超越了预期的设计，被改装成新的用途，比如门旁的水果碗放钥匙，扶手椅放钱包，镜框里塞着杂货清单的镜子。这些物品对我们家的协调、组织和分享至关重要。他们还发现，个人的、历史的和习惯性的使用不是为了效率或便利而设计的。重要的是，这些物品简单、灵活，很容易被我们挪用于新用途，以满足我们精确的、独特的需求和欲望。鉴于物联网(IoT)的出现，数字技术正日益成为我们家庭的一部分。然而，这些技术的复杂性、僵化的功能和类似设备的设计强烈地限制了我们定制和调整它们以满足我们的需求的能力。 这项研究调查了用日常材料制成的嵌入式技术和连接性的家居物品的设计。它们旨在通过日常例行公事和实践利用人类的智能，并将数字和非数字功能结合起来。例如，当你把钥匙放进去时，门旁边的淡黄色陶瓷碗会自动向左倾斜，并保持这种状态，表明你没有钥匙在手。而厨房柜台上装手机的蓝色小碗已经变平了，显示你把手机拿出来放进包里。走廊里的木钟轻轻地敲响着信号，表明你的邻居已经离开了她的家，正在送你的孩子一起去上学的路上。谢天谢地，你最喜欢的雨伞篮子现在更敞开了，预示着今天不会下雨了！这些日常用品都是简单易懂的形式，不需要界面，同时对潜在的替代数字和非数字用途持开放态度。这一方法通过有益地利用人类做法的国内技术提供了机智。 本研究利用嵌入式技术和网络技术开发了物联网技术平台。我们将利用这个平台调查不同用户驱动的应用程序在家庭中的多个案例研究应用。每个案例研究都考察了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交互的挑战，以及在为家庭设计互联技术时对透明度和隐私的需求。这项研究将推进理论，创造设计范例，扩大人机界面研究的数字化制造，并为互联的日常事物提供工具包。调查结果将导致用户采用的更大集成度和质量，以及长期可持续使用。

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.