ABSTRACT

The home has been the subject of investigation in the social sciences and interaction design communities for decades. This has been driven not least by a wish to understand technology, energy demand, and how it might be understood in terms of social practices. In this paper, we reflect on several studies that have sought to capture this relationship. We introduce an evolving methodological approach we term ‘Resource Trace Interviewing’ that extends interview practice using visualizations of fine-grained quantitative data from sensors and software deployed in the home. By facilitating fuller accounts and joint sense-making between participants and researchers, this method better reveals the patterns of technology and energy use in the digitally connected home, and how this in turn relates to domestic practices. We reflect, for the first time, on the strengths and limitations of this approach as a guide to others studying similar socio-technical settings.

摘要

几十年来，家一直是社会科学和交互设计界研究的主题。这主要是出于了解技术、能源需求以及如何从社会实践的角度来理解它的愿望。在本文中，我们回顾了几项试图捕捉这种关系的研究。我们介绍了一种不断发展的方法论方法，我们称之为“资源跟踪访谈”，它使用来自家庭中部署的传感器和软件的细粒度定量数据的可视化来扩展访谈实践。通过促进参与者和研究人员之间更全面的描述和共同理解，这种方法更好地揭示了数字连接家庭中技术和能源使用的模式，以及这反过来与家庭实践的关系。我们第一次反思，