Field Trial of Home Internet Use

其目的是调查的整合和影响的住宅互联网使用之间的样本约100个城市家庭在宾夕法尼亚州和明尼苏达州的小城镇约200个家庭。互联网和商业在线服务正在迅速增长，其中很大一部分增长是通过以下方式实现的： 连接 回家 电信 和计算行业正在进行重组，以便通过基于计算机的电信向家庭提供电子服务。 尽管有这些变化，我们对人们如何在 home-in 他们的 家庭角色 各位委员， 学生，劳动力的参与者，作为团体和社区的成员， 或者作为公民-会使用新的 为他们提供的服务。同样，我们对这些服务一旦被使用将如何影响人们的生活也知之甚少。 这个研究项目利用了一个正在进行的现场试验的住宅互联网的使用，已开发与工业赞助。有三个问题推动了这项研究：是什么导致了技术在家庭中的传播和驯化？ 电子集团如何发展？电子群体对人们的社会支持、信息和家庭影响力有什么影响？ 这个NSF资助的项目的目标是通过开发新的措施，设计实验和实地研究，并分析从实地试验中收集的数据来解决这些问题，重点是家庭内部的互动，电子群体的发展，以及互联网使用对群体内部和群体之间关系的影响。

Whose aim is to investigate the integration and impacts of residential Internet use among a sample of some 100 urban families in Pennsylvania and some 200 small-town Minnesota families. The Internet and commercial online services are growing rapidly with a substantial portion of this growth occurring through connections to homes. The telecommunications and computing industries are reorganizing to provide electronic services to households through computer-based telecommunications. Despite these changes, we have little understanding of how people at home---in their roles as family members, students, participants in the labor force, as members of groups and communities, or as citizens---would use the new services available to them. Similarly, we have little understanding of how these services, once they are used, will affect peoples' lives. This research project capitalizes on an ongoing field trial of residential Internet use that has been developed with industrial sponsorship. There are three questions driving the research: What leads to diffusion and domestication of technology in homes? How do electronic groups develop? What impact do electronic groups have on peoples' social support, information, and household influence? The goal of this NSF-funded project is to address these questions by developing new measures, designing experiments and field studies, and analyzing data that is being collected from the field trial, focusing on intra-family interactions, the development of electronic groups, and the impact that Internet use has on relations within and among groups.