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Inside the Smart Home Richard Harper, Editor Springer 1111 Inside the Smart Home 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 611 i Springer London Berlin Heidelberg New York Hong Kong Milan Paris Tokyo ii 1111 Richard Harper (Ed.) 2 3 4 5 Inside the 6 7 8 9 10 11 Smart Home 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 611 iii Richard Harper, PhD The Appliance Studio, University Gate East, Park Row, Bristol BS1 5UB, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Inside the smart home 1. Home automation 2. Home automation–Social aspects 3. Household appliances–Automatic control 4. Household electronics I. Harper, Richard, 1960– 643.6 ISBN 1852336889 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Inside the smart home / Richard Harper (ed.). p. cm. ISBN 1–85233–688–9 (alk. paper) 1. Home automation. 2. Households. 3. Lifestyles. 4. Domestic engineering. I. Harper, Richard, 1960– TK7881.25.I575 2003 (cid:1) 643.6–dc21 2003050547 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accor- dance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. ISBN 1–85233–688–9 Springer-Verlag London Berlin Heidelberg a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH www.springer.co.uk © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2003 The use of registered names, trademarks etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Typeset by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon Printed and bound in the United States of America 34/3830–543210 Printed on acid-free paper SPIN 10890627 iv Contents ix 1111 Part 3 The Home of the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 2 3 10 Towards the Unremarkable Computer: Making Technology 4 at Home in Domestic Routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 5 Peter Tolmie, James Pycock, Tim Diggins, Allan MacLean 6 and Alain Karsenty 7 10.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 8 10.2 Work Routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 9 10.3 Returning to the Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 10 10.4 Routine Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 11 10.5 The Alarm Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 12 10.6 Ubiquitous Computing and the Quest for the “Invisible” . . . . 197 13 10.7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 14 15 11 Daily Routines and Means of Communication in a 16 Smart Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 17 Sanna Leppänen and Marika Jokinen 18 11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 19 11.2 Daily Routines Structure the Everyday Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 20111 11.3 Family Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 1 11.4 Traditional Paper Versus Electronic Communication . . . . . . . 215 2 11.5 Emotions and Smart Home Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 3 11.6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 4 5 12 Living Inside a Smart Home: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 6 Dave Randall 7 12.1 CSCW and the Domestic Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 8 12.2 The Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 9 12.3 Social Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 30 12.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 1 2 13 Smart Home, Dumb Suppliers? The Future of Smart 3 Homes Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 4 James Barlow and Tim Venables 5 13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 6 13.2 “Smart Homes”: A Recent History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 7 13.3 New Players and New Markets? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 8 13.4 Networks and Transmission Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 9 13.5 Models for the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 40 13.6 Future Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 1 13.7 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 2 3 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 4 5 611 ix 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1511 For Neville Moray 16 17 18 19 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 1 2 3 4 5 611 v This page intentionally left blank 1111 Contents 2 3 4 5 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 List of Contributors xi 8 9 1 Inside the Smart Home: Ideas, Possibilities and Methods . . . . . . . 1 10 Richard Harper 11 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 12 1.2 An Introduction to the History of User Research in this 13 Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 14 1.3 Structure of the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 15 16 Part 1 Conceptions of the Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 17 18 2 Smart Homes: Past, Present and Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 19 Francis K. Aldrich 20111 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1 2.2 Past History of the Smart Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2 2.3 Present Status of the Smart Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3 2.4 Future Prospects for the Smart Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4 2.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 6 3 Households as Morally Ordered Communities: 7 Explorations in the Dynamics of Domestic Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 8 John D. Strain 9 3.1 Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 30 3.2 Theoretical Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 1 3.3 Analysing the Practices – Continuity and Change . . . . . . . . . 47 2 3.4 Changing the Paradigm of Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3 3.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4 5 4 Time as a Rare Commodity in Home Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6 Lynne Hamill 7 4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 8 4.2 The Economics of the Household . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 9 4.3 Technology in the Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 40 4.4 Case Study: TVs, VCRs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 1 4.5 Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 2 3 4 5 611 vii

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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 aff
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