New Concepts for Situated Messaging in the Home

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• Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research
• Thursday 09 March 2006, 14:15-15:15
• Rainbow Room (FS07), Computer Laboratory.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Alan Blackwell.

In this talk I will describe a field trial designed to investigate the potential of remote, situated messaging within the home. Five households used our “HomeNote” device for approximately a month. The results show a diversity of types of communication which highlight the role of messaging both to a household and to a place. It also shows the ways in which these kinds of messages enable subtle ways of requesting action, expressing affection, and marking identity in a household - communication types which have received little attention in the research literature. These in turn point to new concepts for technology which I will go on to describe.

This talk is part of the Rainbow Graphics Seminars series.

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• Human-Computer Interaction
• Rainbow Interaction Seminars
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