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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Schulz, Annika Sabrina"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Pop-Up Probes
    (Mensch und Computer 2022 - Tagungsband, 2022) Schulz, Annika Sabrina; Hornecker, Eva
    Cultural probes are a popular approach for research settings where researchers cannot observe directly, instead letting participants work on tasks in their own time. The creation of attractive cultural probes can be a time-consuming process requiring a diverse skillset. We suggest the use of pop-up paper elements as a simple, cheap, and effective way to engage participants. We explain how to craft the material based on a case study with Pop-Up Probes used as warm-up exercise for a co-creation session to make participants reflect on their own relationship with objects in their home. Based on this case study we illustrate what information can be attained from the cultural probes and discuss opportunities to transfer the method to other contexts.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    User Perceptions and Experiences with Smart Homes - The Smart Home as an Obedient Guard Dog, Disinterested Cat, Ambitious Octopus or Busy Beehive
    (Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024, 2024) Schulz, Annika Sabrina; Youssef, Yara; Beruscha, Frank; Hornecker, Eva
    We investigated people’s experience with living in shared smart homes, involving both smart home initiators and maintainers (primary users) as well as other inhabitants (secondary users). Through a cultural probe study with 35 participants from 16 shared homes and follow-up interviews with a subset, we gained insights into people’s understanding of smart home technology, their ideas for the future, their experiences with the technology, and how they relate to their smart home. Our findings highlight how the role taken (primary or secondary user) influences how smart homes are experienced and understood in everyday life, and how ’smartness’ is defined. The study further investigates how people describe their smart home ’as a living being’, yielding a wide range of animal metaphors, that reveal character traits that people associate with smart home technology.