The ins and outs of home networking: The case for useful and usable domestic networking

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-28

  Grinter, Rebecca E ^a   Edwards, W Keith ^a   Chetty, Marshini ^a   Poole, Erika S ^a   Sung, Ja Young ^a   Yang, Jeonghwa ^a   Crabtree, Andy ^b   Tolmie, Peter ^b   Rodden, Tom ^b   Greenhalgh, Chris ^b   Benford, Steve ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Home networking; Human computer interaction

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SPACES; DOMESTIC LIFE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HOME NETWORKING; HOME NETWORKS; HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS; KEY ISSUES; MULTIPLE COMPUTERS; NETWORK SOLUTIONS; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL ORDER; TECHNICAL WORK;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 67651055429     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1534903.1534905     Document Type: Article

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