The success of the audio space research led me to want to bring that same kind of immersive and lightweight communications to people in their everyday home lives.  This turned out to be a fascinating topic, and included the following activities, in addition to leading me into home networking:

Casablanca

I started and led the Casablanca project while at Interval.  Casablanca was a multi-year, multi-disciplinary effort that resulted in a number of social communication devices for homes.  Other results include findings from several consumer studies.  For an overview, see the talk I gave at Stanford's People, Computers and Design seminar in April 2000:

The paper that the talk is based on is:

Stanford course

In early 1999, I put together a new course, "Designing Consumer and Domestic Technology," for Stanford's HCI program in computer science.  It was unique in its social science perspective, along with imparting techniques for designing for the home environment.  For more about the course, see the paper that I wrote about it.

Consumer studies

Casablanca was one of the projects at Interval that incorporated ethnomethodological (that is, using methods inspired by ethnography), qualitative studies.  Although little has been published about the wide range of consumer research at Interval, the general approach is described in a short paper: 

Additional talks and papers