Briggs Pam, Nicholson James, Lukins Rhian
PaCT Lab, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
NorSC Lab, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jan 6;15:1426804. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1426804. eCollection 2024.
Despite a growing number of studies describing the digital ecosystems of the home, few have explored the human component of this ecosystem and fewer have accounted for household and relationship diversity. We asked the inhabitants of nine households to share images of their digital devices and then interviewed them about how the technology was distributed and used, what roles they adopted in relation to the different devices and what boundaries or rules they set up to manage joint use. Following a thematic analysis, we describe (i) the digital components of the ecosystem and their use; (ii) the humans in the ecosystem and their relationships with technology and with each other, and (iii) interconnectedness in terms of joint use and self- or other-imposed restrictions. We use this data to describe dimensions against which households will meaningfully differ and suggest how these dimensions might be used to explore the implications of household and relationship diversity for future smarthome technologies.
尽管描述家庭数字生态系统的研究越来越多，但很少有研究探讨该生态系统中的人类因素，更少有人考虑到家庭和关系的多样性。我们请九户家庭的住户分享他们数字设备的图片，然后就技术的分配和使用方式、他们在不同设备上所扮演的角色以及为管理共同使用而设定的界限或规则对他们进行了访谈。经过主题分析，我们描述了：（i）生态系统的数字组成部分及其使用情况；（ii）生态系统中的人类及其与技术以及彼此之间的关系；（iii）在共同使用以及自我施加或他人施加的限制方面的相互联系。我们利用这些数据来描述家庭之间会产生显著差异的维度，并建议如何利用这些维度来探讨家庭和关系多样性对未来智能家居技术的影响。
