WG 9.3 - HOIT

(est. 1988, revised 1989)

AIMS

1)	Foster benevolent design, development, implementation, applications and use of Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics (HOIT).
2)	Encourage surveys and studies on HOIT.
3)	Develop methodologies for studying social implications of HOIT.
4)	Establish a global platform for interaction, exchange, joint initiatives and co-operation between such groups as: the end users of HOIT: members of households industrial developers and designers of HOIT technology and related services implementation designers policy, decision making, social and consultative bodies architects and urban planners scientists.

SCOPE

The social implications of informatics, communications and telematics in the home, the family and its environment (HOIT); including

actual and potential human usefulness of HOIT
social impact of these technologies and their applications
developments of the underlying infrastructure
rationale in innovation and design processes
dynamics of technology development.

WG 9.3 explicitly cares about the position of, and the potentials for, vulnerable groups like children, less-educated, disabled, elderly and non-employed people, paid and non-paid workers at home, cultural minorities, unaware users and others.

Chairman of the Working Group: Andy Sloane

For a short introduction by a former chairman read this: What is HOIT