Using clear and accessible language this book examines the growing field of ‘smart technology’ for the home. The author first introduces the field before exploring the various background issues, including how the home differs from other environments. He then shows how these background issues affect the design and usability of these technologies. A detailed case study looks at the use of handheld and wearable digital technology in sheltered housing. The last section examines what it is like to live in a smart home and why they have so far failed to reach the levels of success originally predicted. Invaluable reading for anybody interested in designing smart technologies for the home.
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"A fascinating insight into potentially one of the most exciting developments that affects each and every one of us as we move forward into the 21st Century. This book indicates the direction industry must take if we are to achieve the dream of living in a Smart Home." Steve Hearnden, Mobile Telecommunications Consultant, UK "A timely and much needed compliment to more technology-led explorations of the Smart Home. It draws attention to the complexity, diversity and conceptual richness of domestic life and critically reflects on the adoption and use of technologies in the home to date." Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Sapient Ltd, UK
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In 2001, Orange, a UK mobile network operator, announced the "Orange at Home" project, a smart house incorporating the latest technology wizardry built some 20 miles north of London. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
smart home technology, smart home technologies, other interactive technologies, digital newspapers, new domestic technology, smart homes, social connectivity, smart house, distance connectivity, social screen, twelve households, routine character, programme guides, home computing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Polity Press, Cambridge University Press, Personal Technologies, Engineering Ethnography, Human Factors, Consumer Research Project's Research, Cooperative Buildings, Great Britain, Special Issue, Technology Research, The Importance of Homes, The Stationery Office, Basic Books, Co-operative Buildings Lecture Notes, Computing Systems, Mark Weiser, Open University Press, World Wide Web, Chapel Hill, Englewood Cliffs, Integrating Information, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Patterns of Home Life, Philips Research New!
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In 2001, Orange, a UK mobile network operator, announced the "Orange at Home" project, a smart house incorporating the latest technology wizardry built some 20 miles north of London. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
smart home technology, smart home technologies, other interactive technologies, digital newspapers, new domestic technology, smart homes, social connectivity, smart house, distance connectivity, social screen, twelve households, routine character, programme guides, home computing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Polity Press, Cambridge University Press, Personal Technologies, Engineering Ethnography, Human Factors, Consumer Research Project's Research, Cooperative Buildings, Great Britain, Special Issue, Technology Research, The Importance of Homes, The Stationery Office, Basic Books, Co-operative Buildings Lecture Notes, Computing Systems, Mark Weiser, Open University Press, World Wide Web, Chapel Hill, Englewood Cliffs, Integrating Information, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Patterns of Home Life, Philips Research New!
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- Feminism Confronts Technology by Judy Wajcman on page 39, and page 246
- Studies in Ethnomethodology (Social and Political Theory) by Harold Garfinkel on page 178, and page 205
- Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (Comedia) by David Morley on page 96, and page 179
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- Inhabited Information Spaces: Living with your Data (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) by David N. Snowdon in Front Matter
- Home-Oriented Informatics and Telematics: Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.3 HOIT2005 Conference (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) by Andy Sloane on page 207
- Mobile World: Past, Present and Future (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) by Lynne Hamill in Front Matter
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