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The Importance of Homes in Technology Research

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Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture (CoBuild 1999)

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This paper argues for the importance of home-related research on technology. Several important differences between researching homes and researching workplaces are described, and several issues in conducting home-related research are discussed in the context of specific research efforts. Ways to advance home-related research as a discipline are presented, including an existing course on technology design with a home focus.

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  1. Interval Research Corporation, 1801 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Debby Hindus

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  1. Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany

    Norbert A. Streitz

  2. HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jane Siegel

  3. Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics School for Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Volker Hartkopf

  4. IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Dolivostr. 15, D-64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Shin’ichi Konomi

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Hindus, D. (1999). The Importance of Homes in Technology Research. In: Streitz, N.A., Siegel, J., Hartkopf, V., Konomi, S. (eds) Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture. CoBuild 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10705432_18

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