Prior research has surfaced the need to study multi-user issues in smart homes in more depth (e.g., ) taking advantage of the fact that smart homes are now deployed beyond early adopters, we study multi-user device sharing in situ among a variety of households. For instance, in the case of SmartThings, end users can provision multiple accounts but cannot currently give them different levels of access to information . However, today's commercial smart home platforms often provide only limited multi-user support. Unlike the popular personal technologies of recent decades, like laptops and smartphones, smart home devices, when placed in a shared environment, become shared devices used by and affecting multiple people. Smart home devices and platforms-including the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, Philips Hue lights, Nest thermostats and cameras, and more-are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the homes of end users. We make design recommendations for supporting long-term smart homes and non-expert household members. We observe an outsized role of the person who installs devices in terms of selecting, controlling, and fixing them negotiations between parents and children and minimally voiced privacy concerns among co-occupants, possibly due to participant sampling. Our findings surface tensions and cooperation among users in several phases of smart device use: device selection and installation, ordinary use, when the smart home does not work as expected, and over longer term use. We conducted a mixed-methods study with 18 participants (primarily people who drive smart device adoption in their homes) living in multi-user smart homes, combining semi-structured interviews and experience sampling. As these technologies are deployed in shared spaces, we seek to understand interactions among multiple people and devices in a smart home. It is not known if the boycott still applies, given EG’s current independent status.Adoption of commercial smart home devices is rapidly increasing, allowing in-situ research in people's homes. Despite the relationship, Twitch claims that the teams “received no preferential treatment,” during this time. In December last year, Twitch announced that both Evil Geniuses and Alliance would be breaking away to become independent, player-owned organizations. That’s not fair, you can’t possibly do this.’”įormer GoodGame founder and CEO Alex Garfield parted ways with Twitch in August 2016. At every turn, the cry would be, ‘Yeah, well you have Twitch as your owner. Because all the other companies were so incredibly uncomfortable with EG being in such a good position that it froze them. “In this situation where you do have such a huge advantage, ends up being the death of you. “And EG was put on the shelf, and kind of left to wilt.” “I’m not proud to say, but Twitch absolutely complied,” iNcontroL said. In the video, iNcontroL alleges that the acquisition had made other esports organizations uncomfortable, feeling that Evil Geniuses could receive priority treatment and advantages over rival teams on Twitch’s platform. Twitch acquired Evil Geniuses and Alliance parent company GoodGame in December 2014, when Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was gaining popularity as an esport.
Twitch acquired Evil Geniuses’ agency, GoodGame, in 2014. “I don’t know if it was actually written down but this is what they said: this group of people will absolutely boycott all things Twitch if EG is allowed to have a Counter-Strike team, specifically.” “Cloud9 and a few other organizations, specifically Jack from Cloud9, went to Twitch and organized a declaration basically,” iNcontroL said in his video.
The team’s former Counter-Strike lineup was disbanded in January 2012, and the organization has not signed any new CS players since then.Īccording to a new video released on YouTube by former Evil Geniuses StarCraft II player Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson, the reason for EG’s lack of a presence in CS:GO can be attributed to the events following the organization’s acquisition by Twitch (topic starts at 31 minute mark).Īs a direct result of the acquisition, rival esports teams reportedly approached Twitch and threatened to boycott the streaming platform if EG were to sign a Counter-Strike team. Esports organization Evil Geniuses has not had a Counter-Strike roster for five years.
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