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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Title
Contents
List of figures
List of authors
Acknowledgements
Series preface: Why home?
1 Design, ethnography and homes
Social science and design
What is home?
A design ethnography approach to the home
The book
2 Temporalities
Interrogating the temporalities of ethnography
Temporalities of homes
Design ethnography temporalities
Summing up
3 Environments
Introduction
The materiality of home
The atmospheres of home
The digital–material–atmospheric home
Implications: Designing for the digital–material–atmospheric home
4 Activity and movement
Movement as an approach
The study of human activity in the home
Moving through the home in practice
Cooking as movement
Digital technologies and media on the move
Non-human movement through the home
Summing up
5 Methods for researching homes
Researching everyday life
Researching in homes
Using short-term and intensive ethnographic and design research methods
Using interview methods in homes
Touring the home with participants
Video re-enactments
In-practice studies of everyday human activity
Participatory floor plan activity and timeline methods
Arts-based methods: The Tactile Time collage
Self-reporting methods
Self-interviewing methods: The Five Cups of Tea video method
Video diaries: The Evening Times video recording method
Summing up
6 Homes in translation
Making impact through ethnography and design in homes
Design, ethnography and reconceptualizing home
Researching future homes
Future homes research
References
Index
Copyright
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