There are around 285 million visually impaired people worldwide, and around 370,000
people are registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK. Ongoing advances in …

The increasing availability of wearable devices (wearables),“smart” home, and other next-
generation wirelessly connected devices for work, home, and leisure presents opportunities …

In Material Methods I outline the methodological possibilities and implications of researching
the material world. The book starts from the premise that the world is simultaneously material …

The study focuses on an innovative user centred design approach called probes. Probes are
based on self-documenting, they are explorative and design oriented, and they aim at …

Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the
design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a …

Ethnography as a resource for design has been a topic of debate within Participatory Design
since the late 1980s when a group of anthropologically trained social scientists began …

The domestic environment is predicted by market analysts to be the major growth area in
computing over the next decade, yet it is a poorly understood domain at the current time of …

In user-centered design, attention has shifted from improving usability and addressing
ergonomic problems to wider perspectives such as experiences in everyday life. This shift …

This paper focuses on the complex and intimate setting of domestic home care. The majority
of care for chronically ill people is realized by non-professionals, the relatives, who are often …

Video-based communication has become a common way of interacting with remote
interlocutors, whether through complex videoconferencing systems or webcams integrated …