Voice has become a widespread and commercially viable interaction mechanism with the
introduction of voice assistants (VAs), such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google …

In-home, place-based, conversational agents have exploded in popularity over the past
three years. In particular, Amazon's conversational agent, Alexa, now dominates the market …

Applying a thing-centered, material speculation approach we designed the Morse Things to
acknowledge and inquire into the gap between things and us. The Morse Things are sets of …

Internet-enabled consumer devices are to be developed by the manufacturers. In this article,
we examine how the Internet of things (IoT) can support marketing activities, including …

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 …

Sociotechnical imaginaries are futures that people envision might be possible and
desirable. They have a real impact on how systems are designed and what values they have …

In this paper we examine the notion of privacy as promoted in the digital economy and how it
has been taken up as a design challenge in the fields of CSCW, HCI and Ubiquitous …

Smart cities are one area of interactive systems design where the technologies and services
of the Internet of Things (IoT) have the potential to serve public interest. In this paper we …

Smart speakers become increasingly ubiquitous in our homes. Consequently, we need to
study how smart speakers affect the members of a household. Understanding the adoption …

Smart technologies in the home promise efficiency and control, but this simplistic story
obscures their potential to reconfigure relationships and introduce new tensions into …