Elaborating on the result of a field study of Christmas traditions in eight British households, we explore the design of technology specifically aimed at augmenting existing practices. Four concepts that favoured playfulness and engagement across generations were discussed in a workshop with eight people who took part in the initial field study. The importance of being connected and spending time together in a way that reinforces the family bonding was evident. The enthusiasm demonstrated during the workshop for some proposals and participants' engagement in revisiting those that did not feel right to produce better concepts seems to demonstrate there is space for interaction design that is ethnographically motivated and aesthetically harmonious with the meaning of home. © 2012 ACM.
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Petrelli, D., Bowen, S., Dulake, N., & Light, A. (2012). Digital Christmas: An exploration of festive technology. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS ’12 (pp. 348–357). https://doi.org/10.1145/2317956.2318009
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