Making home or making do: a critical look at homemaking without a home

Making the Home Network at Home: Digital Housekeeping

This paper exploits ethnographic findings to build on and elaborate Grinter et al’s 2005 study of “the work to make the home network work”. We focus particularly on the work involved in setting up and maintaining home networks, which we characterize as ‘digital housekeeping’. Our studies reveal that it is through digital housekeeping that the home network is ‘made at home’ or made into an unrem...

Home-Making Group

Choosing an adult foster home or a nursing home: residents' perceptions about decision making and control.

Representative samples of 260 Oregon foster care residents and 179 cognitively intact nursing home residents were queried retrospectively about the nature and circumstances surrounding their decision to move to a foster care or nursing home, including the alternatives they considered, the circumstances leading to the move, their perception of the decision-making process and who influenced it, t...

Making Home Safe for Children

Trauma is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in children. A significant number of injuries occur in home environment [1]. This subject has been studied extensively in western countries and huge data is generated. Based upon the findings many policy decisions have been taken in order to minimize the potential threats at home. In addition many educational activities are conducted for p...

Making Home Automation Communications Secure

L ong the futuristic domain of hobbyists, home automation is now moving from the bleeding edge to the mainstream. Utility service providers offer specialized and valuable applications such as energy load management to retain customers in the face of competition. More new homes are wired for intelligent control, with security, comfort, and convenience systems becoming networkaware. Homeowners ca...