ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what people do in the home and explores how a concept of movement can fruitfully be engaged to study this. The question of how to categorize what people do into units that can be effectively researched, analysed and reported on has taken various forms in academic theory and scholarship. Movement has in recent years become a significant concept in the social sciences and humanities, reaching across disciplines including human geography and anthropology. On the surface we might consider that each activity that is undertaken in the home - such as cooking, laundry or showering - could be seen as a separate unit or practice. The chapter discusses in more detail how media and movement might usefully be engaged for research and design. Earlier research about media in homes has focused on a range of areas that provide relevant background for design ethnography understandings of everyday life in the home.
