Locating family values: A field trial of the whereabouts clock

Barry Brown; Alex S. Taylor; Shahram Izadi; Abigail Sellen; Joseph Kaye; Rachel Eardley

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74853-3_21

Locating family values: A field trial of the whereabouts clock

Barry Brown^*, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Joseph Kaye, Rachel Eardley

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We report the results of a long-term, multi-site field trial of a situated awareness device for families called the "Whereabouts Clock". The Clock displayed family members' current location as one of four privacy-preserving, deliberately coarse-grained categories (HOME, WORK, SCHOOL or ELSEWHERE). In use, the Clock supported not only family co-ordination but also more emotive aspects of family life such as reassurance, connectedness, identity and social touch. This emphasized aspects of family life frequently neglected in Ubicomp, such as the ways in which families' awareness of each others' activities contributes to a sense of a family's identity. We draw further on the results to differentiate between location as a technical aspect of awareness systems and what we characterize as "location-in- interaction". Location-in-interaction is revealed as an emotional, accountable and even moral part of family life.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp 2007
Subtitle of host publication	Ubiquitous Computing - 9th International Conference, UbiComp 2007, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer
Pages	354-371
Number of pages	18
Volume	4717
ISBN (Print)	3540748520, 9783540748526
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74853-3_21
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2007 - lnnsbruck, Austria Duration: 16 Sept 2007 → 19 Sept 2007

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	4717 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2007
Country/Territory	Austria
City	lnnsbruck
Period	16/09/07 → 19/09/07

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

cell phone
family life
privacy concern
smart home
locate family

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Brown, B., Taylor, A. S., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., Kaye, J., & Eardley, R. (2007). Locating family values: A field trial of the whereabouts clock. In UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing - 9th International Conference, UbiComp 2007, Proceedings (Vol. 4717, pp. 354-371). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4717 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74853-3_21

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Brown, B, Taylor, AS, Izadi, S, Sellen, A, Kaye, J & Eardley, R 2007, Locating family values: A field trial of the whereabouts clock. in UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing - 9th International Conference, UbiComp 2007, Proceedings. vol. 4717, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4717 LNCS, Springer, pp. 354-371, 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2007, lnnsbruck, Austria, 16/09/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74853-3_21

Locating family values: A field trial of the whereabouts clock. / Brown, Barry; Taylor, Alex S.; Izadi, Shahram et al.
UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing - 9th International Conference, UbiComp 2007, Proceedings. Vol. 4717 Springer, 2007. p. 354-371 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4717 LNCS).

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