Situating Digital Interventions: Mixed Methods for HCI Research in the Home

• DOI: 10.1093/iwc/iwu034
• Publication Date: 2014-10-11T04:01:46Z
• Authors: Val Mitchell; Kerstin Leder Mac...; Sarah Pink; Carolina Escobar-...; Garrath T. Wilson; Tracy Bhamra
• Keywords: © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Computer Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); 11. Sustainability; 05 social sciences; distribution; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; provided the original work is properly cited.; 02 engineering and technology; 7. Clean energy; and reproduction in any medium; which permits unrestricted reuse

One of the enduring problems researching and designing digital technologies for home is that both media uses tend to be dispersed spatially temporally throughout environment routines home. This raises a number methodologically challenging issues: how are situated amongst other technologies; materialities textures shape experience home; ways in which practices use entangled with activities part content communications create wider ecology communication interaction environments. In this article, we outline methodological practical response these questions describe its application through development tailored interdisciplinary research methods.