Extending Everyday Practices in the Home with Connected Things

随着时间的推移，我们选择了各种各样的家居用品。这些“东西”很重要，因为我们依赖它们使我们的日常生活有目的和有意义。各种各样的物品是我们日常生活和实践不可或缺的一部分。它们往往超出了它们的预期设计，被改造成新的用途，比如门边放钥匙的水果盘，放钱包的扶手椅，把购物清单塞进镜框的镜子。这些物品对于我们家里的协调、组织和分享是至关重要的。他们还发现，个人的、历史的和习惯的用法并不是为了效率或方便而设计的。重要的是，这些物品是简单的，灵活的，并且很容易被我们用于新的用途，以满足我们精确的，独特的需求和愿望。随着物联网（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、刚性功能和设备式设计极大地限制了我们定制和调整它们以满足我们需求的能力。******这项研究调查了由日常材料制成的嵌入式技术和连接的家居用品的设计。这些设计是为了通过日常生活和实践来利用人类的智慧，并将数字与非数字功能结合起来。例如，当你把钥匙放进去时，你门旁边的淡黄色陶瓷碗就会自己向左倾斜，并保持这种状态，表明你没有把钥匙拿在手里。而厨房柜台上放手机的蓝色小碗已经变平了，这表明你把手机拿下来放进了包里。走廊里的木钟轻轻地敲响，表明你的邻居已经离开了她的房子，正在送你的孩子一起上学的路上。值得庆幸的是，你最喜欢的伞篮的编织现在更开放了，表明今天没有下雨！这些日常的东西都是简单易懂的形式，不需要任何接口，同时保持对潜在的替代数字和非数字用途的开放。这种方法通过有益地利用人类实践的国内技术提供了智谋。******本研究利用嵌入式技术和物联网技术开发物联网技术平台。我们将使用这个平台来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，以及在为家庭设计连接技术时对透明度和隐私的需求。该研究将推进理论，创建设计范例，扩展HCI研究中的数字制造，并为连接日常事物提供工具包。研究结果将导致更大的集成和用户采用的质量，以及长期可持续的使用。

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.