Domestic 2.0: Constructing Ideas of the Family
Here research is examining how the ‘idea of family’ can be a sociological topic and a design orientation leading to technical innovation and new user experiences. More...

Domestic 2.0: Connecting and Partitioning the Domestic Space
If the idea of constructing family is one theme, then another is the converse: the idea that domestic spaces might be socially and technologically fractionated in ways that people desire. More...   

Visible Consumption
Whatever the social or technological context, consumption is itself an increasingly important and worrying property of our day and age. We need ways of measuring, assessing and comprehending what our consumption habits are causing. More...

Propinquity
It is now possible to interact with digital objects in numerous ways. It is far from certain which method is ideal or perfect, and certainly there is now little faith in the idea More...

Hands-On Computing
Until recently, most computer systems entailed indirect interaction as a method or means for user input. Yet, ordinarily, people use their hands as a primary and direct mechanism for getting to grips with information and material. More...

Living with Intelligent Machines
As the role, function and power of computers alters, so the relationship between ourselves and computers affects what one might call our elemental assumptions. More...