This paper describes a study of how orthodox jews make use of smart home technology. It illustrates how a marginal practice (rather than general mainstream users) can provide an alternative perspecive of meaningful technology use.
The technology is used to make one day each week free from work and active technology use, in order to reflect on God and to focus on spending time with loved ones. This paper also discusses intersting findings when the technology does not work as expected, suggesting that people make up their own reasons for why this is and the people in the study found their own relaxed ways to work around it.
A. Woodruff, S. Augustin and B.E. Foucault. "Sabbath Day Home Automation: ‘It's Like Mixing Technology and Religion’." Proc. CHI 2007, San Jose, CA Apr. 2007, to appear.
Allison Woodruff
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