Overview
- Introduces a new paradigm – the ‘wise’ home, which shall supersede the ‘smart’ home
- Provides options for following more human-centric design processes
- Explores the challenges that techno-centrism poses for smart home technology
Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Current State in Smartness
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The WISE Approach: From Sweet and Smart to WISE
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The WISE Home of the Future
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book introduces the concept of the wise home. Whilst smart homes focus on automation technologies, forcing users to deal with complex and incomprehensible control and programming procedures, the wise home is different. By going beyond intelligence (or smartness) the wise home puts technology in the background and supports explicit (enhanced user-experience) as well as implicit (artificial intelligence) interaction adequate to the end-user’s needs.
The theoretical basis of the wise home is explored and examples for its application for future living are presented based on empirical studies and field work carried out by the author. Principles of HCI and the meaning of the home from differing scientific perspective are discussed and a research model (based on the concept of user experience (UX)) and iterations is introduced. This has resulted in field deployment guides being produced through a systematic development process.
The Future Home is Wise, not Smart will be essential reading to home system developers, designers and researchers, responsible for smart home deployment or Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) who will get insights on how to follow a novel approach in developing and adapting smart home systems to their users’ needs. Students with an interest in software design for pervasive systems will benefit by receiving information on how to develop and customise systems for the specific needs of living environments.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future Home is Wise, Not Smart
Book Subtitle: A Human-Centric Perspective on Next Generation Domestic Technologies
Authors: Gerhard Leitner
Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23093-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23092-4Published: 12 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36582-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23093-1Published: 01 October 2015
Series ISSN: 1431-1496
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 128
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Community and Environmental Psychology