Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective

Cayla Key; Fiona Browne; Nick Taylor; Jon Rogers

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445602

Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective

Cayla Key, Fiona Browne, Nick Taylor, Jon Rogers

School of Art and Design

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Abstract

As the internet is increasingly embedded in the everyday things in our homes, we notice a need for greater focus on the role care plays in those relationships-and therefore an opportunity to realize unseen potential in reimagining home Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper we report on our inquiry of home dwellers' relationships to caring for their everyday things and homes (referred to as thingcare). Findings from our design ethnography reveal four thematic qualities of their relationships to thingcare: Care Spectacle, Care Liminality, Ontological Braiding, and Care Condition. Using these themes as touchstones, we co-speculated to produce four speculative IoT concepts to explore what care as a design ethic might look like for IoT and refect on nascent opportunities and challenges for domestic IoT design. We conclude by considering structures of power and privilege embedded within care practices that critically open new design imaginaries for IoT.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Making Waves, Combining Strengths
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-15
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445602
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2021
Event	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21

Keywords

Care
Care ethics
Design ethnography
Home
Internet of things
Research-throughdesign
Smart home
Things

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Key, C., Browne, F., Taylor, N., & Rogers, J. (2021). Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths (pp. 1-15). Article 166 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445602

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Key, C, Browne, F, Taylor, N & Rogers, J 2021, Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective. in CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths., 166, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-15, 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021, Virtual, Online, Japan, 8/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445602

Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective. / Key, Cayla; Browne, Fiona; Taylor, Nick et al.
CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 1-15 166 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Key C, Browne F, Taylor N , Rogers J. Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2021. p. 1-15. 166. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445602

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