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IT@Home: unraveling complexities of networked devices in the home

Published: 21 April 2006 Publication History

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The home is becoming a complex and hard to manage collection of computers and digital lifestyle devices. The work to setup and maintain a network of digital living devices in the home is similar to the work of IT professionals. Indeed the growing complexity of interconnected digital devices results in more and more time spent solving problems with those devices and their configurations, an important part of computer use that we call "IT@Home". This workshop explores the complexity of framing the right problems, methods for studying those problems, and designing to support users' IT@Home.

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  • (2007)Designing software for consumers to easily set up a secure home networkCHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1240866.1240892(1735-1740)Online publication date: 28-Apr-2007

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      CHI EA '06: CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
      April 2006
      1914 pages
      ISBN:1595932984
      DOI:10.1145/1125451
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      Published: 21 April 2006

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      1. digital lifestyle
      2. domestic technology
      3. information technology

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      April 22 - 27, 2006
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