Together with 11 lower-income households, we explored how assumptions embedded in domestic energy interfaces match their needs, expectations, and everyday practices around domestic energy use and comfort. Catalyzed by cultural probes, residents (1) ...

Digital Twin is a promising paradigm to support the development of socio-technical systems for the digital transformation of society. For example, smart cities and healthcare applications gain advantages from this new paradigm. Currently, ...

An increasing number of innovative technologies are fostering augmented collaborative systems, thus setting the milestones of future collaboration paradigms. By merging real and virtual elements, mixed reality technologies lead to an augmented ...

Energy providers and government institutions encourage residents to adopt (retrofit) smart solutions. This creates a form of smart-paternalism that shifts agency over everyday decisions from residents to algorithms, deciding what is good for them based ...

Social wearables promise to augment and enhance social interactions. However, despite two decades of HCI research on wearables, we are yet to see widespread adoption of social wearables into everyday life. More in-situ investigations into the social ...

Over half of the world's population is expected to be using mobile phones by 2009 and many have become attached to and even dependent on this small electronic communications device. Drawing on seven years of research into the affective aspects of mobile ...