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Threshold devices: looking out from the home

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Florence, Italy

SESSION: Domesticity and Design table of contents

Pages 1429-1438

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-011-1

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William Gaver	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Andy Boucher	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Andy Law	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Sarah Pennington	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
John Bowers	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Jacob Beaver	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Jan Humble	University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Tobie Kerridge	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Nicholas Villar	Lancaster University, London, United Kingdom
Alex Wilkie	Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Threshold devices present information gathered from the home's surroundings to give new views on the domestic situation. We built two prototypes of different threshold devices and studied them in field trials with participant households. The Local Barometer displays online text and images related to the home's locality depending on the local wind conditions to give an impression of the sociocultural surroundings. The Plane Tracker tracks aircraft passing overhead and imagines their flights onscreen to resource an understanding of the home's global links. Our studies indicated that the experiences they provided were compelling, that participants could and did interpret the devices in various ways, that their form designs were appropriate for domestic environments, that using ready-made information contributed to the richness of the experiences, and that situating the information they provided with respect to the home and its locality was important for the ways people engaged with them.

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