Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Study of the Mutual Impact of Cultural Values and the Design and Use of Home Security Devices

这个博士论文改进补助金将支持研究员，博士候选人，从事家庭安全设备的研究，使用参与者观察和访谈。她将讨论如何将道德规范配置到设备中，家庭作为一个物理空间和家庭领域如何受到家庭安全产品设计的影响，以及如何通过家庭安全设备使风险变得物质和可理解。通过对这项技术的研究，她还将解决更广泛的不安全问题，以及家庭安全技术如何抵御大量和各种威胁。该项目将有助于更好地理解规范如何配置到其他技术中，特别是那些旨在促进其他审慎，个人主义目的的技术，以及由此产生的技术如何反过来对社会规范产生影响。这些都是本研究结果对社会的合理、更广泛的好处。

This doctoral dissertation improvement grant will support the investigator, a PhD candidate, to engage in a study of home security devices using participant observation and interviews. She will address how moral norms are configured into devices, how the home as a physical space and domestic sphere is affected by the design of home security products, and how risk is made material and intelligible through home security devices. Through an examination of this technology, she will also address the much broader question of insecurity and how home security technology serves as a defense against a sizable number and variety of threats. This project will contribute insights for better understanding how norms are configured into other technologies, particularly those that are designed to promote other prudential, individualistic ends, and how the resulting technologies in turn have an impact on societal norms. These are plausible, broader benefits of the results of this study to society.