Christiane Moser, Ilhan Aslan, Katja Neureiter, Ivana Randelshofer, Petra Sundström, Manfred Tscheligi
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Issue N. 37, Summer 2018
Books at home are used for more than reading, such as collecting them, using them as decoration, or expressing personality. In order to get a better understanding of intended and unintended uses of printed books, we conducted seven book tours in different homes followed by semi-structured interviews. This data was complemented with a large-scale online survey with 300 respondents. We describe our findings focusing on storage, sorting, decoration, and self-expressionand how they inspired us to develop a digital bookshelf (ambient display) as a technology probe to explore decoration with eBooks in the home. We argue for a transition from decoration with printed books to eBooks as design inspiration that does not simply replicate a bookshelf as ambient display, but makes eBooks tangible by combining users’ habits with qualities of digital material.
Keywords: Printed books, eBooks, Home, Storage, Sorting, Decoration, Self-expression, Ambient display
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Moser C., Aslan I., Neureiter K., Randelshofer I., Sundström P., Tscheligi M.: Exploring Intended and Unintended Uses of (e)Books as Design Inspiration for Ambient Displays in the Home, Interaction Design & Architecture(s) – IxD&A Journal, N.37, -0001, pp. 21–46, DOI: https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-037-002