Ryan Aipperspach and Allison Woodruff and Ken Anderson and Ben Hooker

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2005-22

November 30, 2005

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/EECS-2005-22.pdf

The proliferation of portable electronic devices in the home creates the opportunity for increasingly complex interactions between household residents and their devices. We present a study of these interactions which focuses on laptop computers in homes with wireless networks, describing the technical infrastructure for the study, and exploring a range of findings about home life. We also present several design implications of this work. Highly accurate position and device usage data has been collected about residents and wireless laptop computers, and visualizations of the data were used to motivate discussion during interviews. This data collection and interviewing method is a novel and promising alternative to other methods such as diaries or self-report surveys.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Aipperspach:EECS-2005-22,
    Author= {Aipperspach, Ryan and Woodruff, Allison and Anderson, Ken and Hooker, Ben},
    Title= {Maps of Our Lives: Sensing People and Objects Together in the Home},
    Year= {2005},
    Month= {Nov},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/EECS-2005-22.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2005-22},
    Abstract= {The proliferation of portable electronic devices in the home
creates the opportunity for increasingly complex interactions between household residents and their devices. We present a study of these interactions which focuses on  laptop computers in homes with wireless networks, describing the technical infrastructure for the study, and exploring a range of findings about home life. We also present several design implications of this work. Highly accurate position and device usage data has been collected about residents and wireless laptop computers, and visualizations of the data were used to motivate discussion during interviews. This data collection and interviewing method is a novel and promising alternative to other methods such as diaries or self-report surveys.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Aipperspach, Ryan 
%A Woodruff, Allison 
%A Anderson, Ken 
%A Hooker, Ben 
%T Maps of Our Lives: Sensing People and Objects Together in the Home
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2005
%8 November 30
%@ UCB/EECS-2005-22
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/EECS-2005-22.html
%F Aipperspach:EECS-2005-22