Nurturing Technologies in the Domestic Environment: Feeling Comforted, Cared for, and Connected at Home

This workshop will explore the potential for technology to support the experience of being nurtured in the home. Emerging practices (observed or imagined) around nurturance in the home will be explored using the lenses of architectural space and social context. These practices will inform proposals for the design of technology that nurtures people for a variety of domains including healthcare, entertainment, education, spiritual practice, and communication. The goals of the workshop are to 1) gain an understanding of emerging practices of using technology for nurturance and 2) propose designs for nurturing technology.