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The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home (2021)
Journal Article
Kilic, D., Crabtree, A., McGarry, G., & Goulden, M. (2022). The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 26(1), 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01655-9

The home is a site marked by the increasing collection and use of personal data, whether online or from connected devices. This trend is accompanied by new data protection regulation and the development of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) that s... Read More about The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home.

Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Fischer, J., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Nichele, E., Goulden, M., & McAuley, D. (2021). Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(9), Article e29085. https://doi.org/10.2196/29085

Background: Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of Covid-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of (mostly hypothetical) contact tracing apps sho... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

Folding and Friction: The Internet of Things and Everyday Life (2021)
Book Chapter
Goulden, M. (2021). Folding and Friction: The Internet of Things and Everyday Life. In D. A. Rohlinger, & S. Sobieraj (Eds.), Oxford handbook of sociology and digital media. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197510636.013.20

The internet of things (IoT)—the embedding of networked computing into the material world around us—seeks to reshape our everyday lives. To address the IoT is to address the material interface between the global digital networks of the twenty-first-c... Read More about Folding and Friction: The Internet of Things and Everyday Life.

Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Spence, A., Leygue, C., Wickes, L., Withers, L., Goulden, M., & Wardman, J. K. (2021). Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 75, Article 102021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102021

Smart energy technologies (SETs) are being developed around the world to support using energy more efficiently and to smooth our consumption over time, helping us to meet our carbon reduction targets. Notably, SETs will only be effective with support... Read More about Dumber energy at home please: Perceptions of Smart Energy Technologies are dependent on home, workplace, or policy context in the United Kingdom.

Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study (2021)
Working Paper
Dowthwaite, L., Fischer, J., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Nichele, E., Goulden, M., & McAuley, D. Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study

Background: Digital contact tracing is employed to monitor and manage the spread of COVID-19. However, to be effective the system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population. Studies of mostly hypothetical contact tracing apps show... Read More about Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study.

Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Nilsson, T., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Goulden, M., Spence, J., & Costanza, E. (2020). Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home. In DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (827–839). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395476

UbiComp has been envisioned to bring about a future dominated by calm computing technologies making our everyday lives ever more convenient. Yet the same vision has also attracted criticism for encouraging a solitary and passive lifestyle. The aim of... Read More about Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home.

‘Delete the family’: platform families and the colonisation of the smart home (2019)
Journal Article
Goulden, M. (2019). ‘Delete the family’: platform families and the colonisation of the smart home. Information, Communication and Society, 24(7), 903-920. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2019.1668454

On its surface, the ‘smart home’ marks an effort to augment everyday domestic life to the benefit of its members, through the pervasive digital technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT). Through an analysis of the family-imitating group accounts o... Read More about ‘Delete the family’: platform families and the colonisation of the smart home.

Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management (2014)
Journal Article
Goulden, M., Bedwell, B., RODDEN, T., Rennick-Egglestone, S., & Spence, A. (2014). Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management. Energy Research and Social Science, 2, 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.008

Smart grids are a key feature of future energy scenarios, with the overarching goal of better aligning energy generation and demand. The work presented here considers the role of the user in such systems, and the contexts in which such roles might em... Read More about Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management.