Title:
My roomba is rambo: Intimate home appliances

dc.contributor.author Sung, Ja-Young en_US
dc.contributor.author Guo, Lan en_US
dc.contributor.author Grinter, Rebecca E. en_US
dc.contributor.author Christensen, Henrik I. en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2011-03-21T20:16:14Z
dc.date.available 2011-03-21T20:16:14Z
dc.date.issued 2007-09
dc.description.abstract Robots have entered our domestic lives, but yet, little is known about their impact on the home. This paper takes steps towards addressing this omission, by reporting results from an empirical study of iRobot’s Roomba™, a vacuuming robot. Our findings suggest that, by developing intimacy to the robot, our participants were able to derive increased pleasure from cleaning, and expended effort to fit Roomba into their homes, and shared it with others. These findings lead us to propose four design implications that we argue could increase people’s enthusiasm for smart home technologies. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Sung, J.-Y., Guo, L., Grinter, R. E., and Christensen, H. I. My roomba is rambo: Intimate home appliances. In 9th Intl Conf on Ubiquitous Computing (Insbruck, A, Sept. 2007). en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-3-540-74852-6
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/38215
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.publisher.original Springer Verlag en_US
dc.subject Empirical study en_US
dc.subject Home en_US
dc.subject Robot en_US
dc.subject Intimacy en_US
dc.title My roomba is rambo: Intimate home appliances en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Proceedings
dc.type.genre Book Chapter
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.author Grinter, Rebecca E.
local.contributor.author Christensen, Henrik I.
local.contributor.corporatename Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
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