TY - CONF T1 - Who's Hogging the Bandwidth: The Consequences of Revealing the Invisible in the Home T2 - SIGCHI '10 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Marshini Chetty A1 - Banks, Richard A1 - Harper, Richard A1 - Regan, Tim A1 - Sellen, Abigail A1 - Gkantsidis, Christos A1 - Karagiannis, Thomas A1 - Key, Peter KW - bandwidth monitoring KW - home broadband KW - home networks AB - As more technologies enter the home, householders are burdened with the task of digital housekeeping-managing and sharing digital resources like bandwidth. In response to this, we created and evaluated a domestic tool for bandwidth management called Home Watcher. Our field trial showed that when resource contention amongst different household members is made visible, people's understanding of bandwidth changes and household politics are revealed. In this paper, we describe the consequences of showing real time resource usage in a home, and how this varies depending on the social make up of the household. JA - SIGCHI '10 T3 - CHI '10 PB - ACM SN - 978-1-60558-929-9 UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753423 ER -