As interactive sounds become embedded in our homes, we turn to the lens of care for exploring our audible relationships with home's nonhuman things, thereby revealing the potential of reimagining with care the design of domestic sound interactions. This ...

While remote work may not be suitable for everyone, it holds promise, particularly for those shouldering domestic labor and responsibilities. Our position paper draws on feminist geography, enabling HCI and Futures of Work researchers to critically ...

Low-cost sensors have enabled a wide array of data-driven applications and insights. As a result, encountering spaces with pervasive sensing has become all but unavoidable. This creates a fundamental tension: the success of smart environments will become ...

Learning companion robots for young children are increasingly adopted in informal learning environments. Although parents play a pivotal role in their children’s learning, very little is known about how parents prefer to incorporate robots into their ...

A fundamental paradigm shift for in-home sensing is apparent. Special-purpose sensing, where there is a one-to-one relationship between sensors and applications, is evolving into general-purpose sensing, where there is a many-to-many relationship between ...

Everyday reflection has benefits, however, learning how to reflect every day at home can be difficult. We explore how immersive technologies may be designed to generate meaningful narratives for reflection. We draw inspiration from the Brechtian theatre ...

We present the Inner Ear: a porcelain device that both captures and represents data. In particular, we focus on sensing vibrations—for their hidden yet omnipresent qualities in domestic environments. We designed the Inner Ear in response and in contrast ...

With the increasing availability of consumer virtual reality (VR) devices for personal and recreational use, the domestic contexts of VR design are increasingly important. Given that much of the current interaction design research for VR is conducted in ...

This study explores the global phenomenon of migration at the local, neighborhood level of a mid-sized city in Germany. Focusing on a long-term interactive storytelling-initiative, it studies the emergence of Arrival Literacy as a bi-directional skill-...

Pandemic lockdowns created new barriers for HCI researchers, but also provided new opportunities for deeper engagement and reflection in our home environments. Five participants were introduced with a design brief on self-isolation and engaged 12 of ...

The security and privacy of smart home systems, particularly from a home user’s perspective, have been a very active research area in recent years. However, via a meta-review of 52 review papers covering related topics (published between 2000 and 2021), ...

Older persons have had decades to get to know their environment - and usually their home - through their own somatic experience. This somatic or "felt" experience enables them to assess their own capabilities when it comes to executing activities of ...

Smart home cameras present new challenges for understanding behaviors and relationships surrounding always-on, domestic recording systems. We designed a series of discursive activities involving 16 individuals from ten households for six weeks in their ...

This study considers how well an autoethnographic diary study helps as a method to explore why families might struggle in the application of strong and cohesive cyber security measures within the smart home. Combining two human-computer interaction (...

Families with teenagers are known to experience various challenges, as parents and teens often have conflicting opinions in regard to technology use. To understand how the disruption caused by SARS-CoV2-2 impacted dynamics around technology use within ...

Tensions in designing for care are often positioned as conflicts to be resolved. We draw upon queer theories to investigate caring for loved ones as not ”in-line” with normative expectations of care as positive and fulfilling. Through the critique of ...

As the internet is increasingly embedded in the everyday things in our homes, we notice a need for greater focus on the role care plays in those relationships—and therefore an opportunity to realize unseen potential in reimagining home Internet of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 caused the rapid introduction of remote schooling in many countries. This transition caused a variety of challenges to families, encompassing organizing home workspaces, setting up computing equipment, and, for many ...

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), domestic spaces face various challenges including insecurity, unreliable power supply and extreme weather conditions that affect poultry farming. The availability of low-cost sensors presents an opportunity to collect real-...

Today, Conversational Agents (CA) are deeply integrated into the daily lives of millions of families, which has led children to extensively interact with such devices. Studies have suggested that the social nature of CA makes them a good learning ...