MSNBC has an interesting story about Roomba owners that appears to contradict a GigaOm post that I commented on recently. The article sites a report conducted by an associate professor at Georgia Tech, Beki Grinter. Here's an interesting quote "The third phase of the study, presented last week at the Ubiquitous Computing Conference in Austria, focused on more traditional users. Polling 379 U.S. users, it found that some would pre-clean their homes before using the machine, and that it seemed to make males more excited about the chore of vacuuming." Perhaps iRobot should market the little guys to women as a means of getting their man involved in the chores!
