Domesticating Hawthorne: Home is for the Birds

Domesticating home networks

This thesis addresses the following question: How should domestic networks be reinvented to support self-management by domestic users? It takes a user-centred design approach to redesign the underlying domestic network infrastructure to better fit domestic users. The overall aim of this work is to create user-centred mechanisms to support self-management of domestic networks by domestic users. ...

Digitising the Domestic/Domesticating The Digital: The Home as Virtual Space

The concept of “home” is of central and universal importance to humanity. This paper argues that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are now inextricably bound up with our concept of home and that they have helped render it a virtual space. In fact, home has always been a virtual s pace in the sense that it has existed in the imagination at the same time as it has been associated ...

Understanding the Hawthorne effect.

Researchers investigated the effectiveness of patient controlled analgesia for patients presenting to emergency departments with pain from traumatic injuries. A randomised controlled trial with a parallel groups study design was used. The control treatment was usual care, with analgesia titrated by nurses according to hospital guidelines. The participants were patients aged 18-75 years presenti...

Hawthorne Effect

Domesticating Computers and the Internet

The people who use computers and the ways they use them have changed substantially over the past 25 years. In the beginning highly educated men in technical professions used computers for work, but over time a much broader range of people are using computers for personal and domestic purposes. This trend is still continuing, and over a shorter time scale has been replicated with the use of the ...