This article explores the practice of intergenerational listening and its implications for re-imagining social connection in COVID-19 crisis. Using an approached based conversation exchange facilitated through video-conferencing platforms, authors critically reflect on possibilities developing a new sense by to everyday sounds (Tuuri Peltola 2019) particular spaces. More specifically, principal...

Abstract Definition of the problem Assistive technologies, including “smart” instruments and artificial intelligence (AI), are increasingly arriving in older adults’ living spaces. Various research has explored risks (“surveillance technology”) potentials (“independent living”) to people’s self-determination from technology itself increasing complexity sociotechnical interactions. However, poin...

The next step of interactive TV services shows a trend towards the integration of new kind of services, but also trends concerning personalization, security and communication. We present findings from two ethnographic studies. These findings are used to inform the development of new forms of interaction concepts in the living room.

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 N. Boulus-Rødje et al. (eds.), ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19–23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_13 Abstract We have conducted a video study of households in Scotland with cohabiting students and young professionals. In this paper we unpack five ex...

An amine bis(phenolate) dibenzyl titanium complex having a methoxy donor on a side arm leads, upon activation with tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane, to unique living properties in alpha-olefin polymerization: exceptionally high molecular weight poly(1-hexene) is obtained in a living fashion at room temperature, living polymerization of 1-hexene is obtained above room temperature, and block copolym...