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BusinessWeek describes a curious design research initiative. A UK home builder has a family living in a sensor-filled concept house, where the people are all RFID-tagged. They'll collect usage data for six months and then use the resulting who/where/when/how-long data to improve the home's design. Just like using weblogs to redesign a website - you know what people have been doing, but you have no idea why. Unless you ask. And the families in this project will be extensively interviewed by a "consumer researcher" so we figure they'll get that piece of the puzzle too.