Smart home systems change the way we experience the home. While there are established
research fields within HCI for visualizing specific use cases of a smart home, studies …

A key issue for smart home systems is supporting non-expert users in their management.
Whereas feedback design on use cases (such as energy feedback) have gained attention …

Smart home systems are becoming an integral feature of the emerging home IT market.
Under this general term, products mainly address issues of security, energy savings and …

Using existing social media technologies as a resource for design offers significant potential
for sustainable and scalable ways of coordinating participation. We look at three exemplar …

Smart Meters are a key component of increasing the power efficiency of the Smart Grid. To
help manage the grid effectively, these meters are designed to collect information on power …

Achieving the sustainability of IT-based solutions is a challenge. We will argue in this paper
that it is helpful to conceptualize designing for sustainable IT-based solutions as taking …

We present a user-centered development process for a GPS monitoring system to be used
in dementia care to support care for persons with wandering behavior. The usage of GPS …

Over the last years, digital fabrication technologies such as 3D printers have become more
and more common at universities and small businesses as well as in communities of …

We work with a multi-national network of computer clubs for families and children called
come_IN. In two such clubs (located in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank), we …

'Infrastructuring'as a concept draws attention to the way in which a designed artefact or
system is not the end of the development process. Rather, technology development takes …