Digital plumbing: The mundane work of deploying UbiComp in the home

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 181-196

  Tolmie, Peter ^a   Crabtree, Andy ^a   Egglestone, Stefan ^a   Humble, Jan ^a   Greenhalgh, Chris ^a   Rodden, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital plumbing; Domestic environment; Ethnography; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; DIGITAL PLUMBING; DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; ETHNOGRAPHY; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; REAL WORLD SETTING; UBICOMP;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INSTALLATION; PLUMBING;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 77957144887     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-009-0260-5     Document Type: Article

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