1. Domestic Routines and Design for the Home.
- Author
-
Crabtree, Andy and Rodden, Tom
- Subjects
- *
COMMUNICATION , *HOME environment , *HOME offices , *FAMILIES , *TECHNOLOGY - Abstract
This article seeks to inform the development of computing for the home environment by unpacking the notion of domestic routines as coordinational features of domestic life. In particular, the paper focuses on the routine nature of communication and use ethnographic study to explicate a discrete organization of coordination whereby household members routinely manage communications coming into and going out of the home. The coordinate ways in which members routinely organize communication are made visible through sequences of practical action, which articulate domestic routines and key properties of communication. These include ecological habitats, activity centers, and coordinate displays where technology is at the core. These organizational features combine to form a locally produced system of communication and open up the play of possibilities for designing information technology systems for the home, articulating the distinct needs of particular settings and prime sites for the deployment of new computing devices and applications in the home. This paper will argue for the need for new conceptual and analytic tools to inform technological development as design moves out of the workplace and into the home.
- Published
- 2004
- Full Text
- View/download PDF