The roles that make the domestic work

Jennifer A. Rode
2010 Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '10  
This paper builds on earlier CSCW studies of domestic technologies, looking at the frequent maintenance required by new security technologies that households are adopting to provide safety and security. It explores how the roles and responsibilities are allocated within a household to support these domestic routines. This paper reports a qualitative study of usage practices surrounding safety and security. It classifies three primary approaches to computer security in the home, and discusses
more » ... technical skill, household structure and gender relate to the approach selected, and discuss the transitory nature of such arrangements.
doi:10.1145/1718918.1718984 dblp:conf/cscw/Rode10 fatcat:auhv7xzbuje6pnpkjgdnqv36ty