Editorial: Methods for Studying Technology in the Home

摘要

The last fifty years have seen an exponential increase in the amount of technology embedded in and passing though home environments, creating spaces that are now technologically as well as socially, psychologically and environmentally complex; It is only in the last fifteen years that the study of Human-Computer Interaction in the home has entered the mainstream, with essential challenges and themes (Edwards & Grinter 2001, Blythe & Monk 2002) defined, and groundbreaking environments for research created and analyzed (Kidd et al., 1999). Diverse aspects within the domestic use of technologies, from childcare to health and wellbeing, to food, media, and energy, have now become the focus of detailed bodies of research in their own right.