Studying and Designing Technology for Domestic Life - Lessons from Home

Conducting research and technology design for domestic life is by no means easy.  Methods commonly used in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in settings like the workplace may not easily translate to the richness and complexity of domestic life.  This book documents new ways in which researchers are studying domestic life, as well as designing and evaluating technology in the home.  Each chapter is a candid discussion about methods that were successfully used for research studies with a focus on the challenges that the researchers faced and the best practices they learned.

• Discover new research methods for exploring family life and evaluating and designing domestic technology.
• Learn about the challenges in designing for and studying domestic life from experts in the field.
• Read researchers' candid stories about what works and what does not work in practice.
• More information available at the companion website: http://lessonsfromhome.org/

Dr. Tejinder K. Judge is a User Experience Researcher at Google Inc, and has organized and led multiple conference workshops on this topic. She is currently researching the design and use of social computing technologies to connect close ties such as family and social circles. Dr. Judge has published over thirty scholarly articles in these research areas.