The HomeCar Organiser: Designing for blurring home-car boundaries

Chandrika Cycil; Rachel Eardley; Mark Perry

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The HomeCar Organiser: Designing for blurring home-car boundaries

Chandrika Cycil^*, Rachel Eardley, Mark Perry

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Ubiquitous computing is having an important impact on family life with a wide range of technologies supporting and creating the need for connected and smarter homes. In particular, mobile devices are allowing families to connect activities across spaces, which include the home and the car. This paper presents a new design concept - the HomeCar Organiser - which is a connected system that enables families to coordinate schedules, activities and artifacts between the home and activities placed in the car. The design of HomeCar Organiser was informed by an empirical ethnographic study of family car travel practices in the UK over one and a half years. The study motivated us to consider how routine practices of everyday life are negotiated through and in the car while supported by a range of technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	955-962
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450330473
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641556
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014 - Seattle, United States Duration: 13 Sept 2014 → 17 Sept 2014

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Conference	2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	13/09/14 → 17/09/14

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Cars
Domestic technology
Family life
Mobile media
Video

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Cycil, C, Eardley, R & Perry, M 2014, The HomeCar Organiser: Designing for blurring home-car boundaries. in UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 955-962, 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2014, Seattle, United States, 13/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641556

The HomeCar Organiser: Designing for blurring home-car boundaries. / Cycil, Chandrika; Eardley, Rachel; Perry, Mark.
UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 955-962.

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