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 …

Published research on smart homes and their users is growing exponentially, yet a clear
understanding of who these users are and how they might use smart home technologies is …

In the ten years since the distinction between" place" and" space" emerged as a
consideration for CSCW researchers and designers, the concepts have proven useful …

In this article we focus attention on ethnography's place in CSCW by reflecting on how
ethnography in the context of CSCW has contributed to our understanding of the sociality …

While self-usage has long been regarded as a questionable approach in human-computer
interaction (HCI) research, recent projects have shown the successful use of …

Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design
anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as …

Food is a central part of our lives. Fundamentally, we need food to survive. Socially, food is
something that brings people together-individuals interact through and around it. Culturally …

Commercial home automation systems are becoming increasingly common, affording the
opportunity to study technology-augmented homes in real world contexts. In order to …

The need for AI systems to provide explanations for their behaviour is now widely
recognised as key to their adoption. In this article, we examine the problem of trustworthy AI …