Inside the Smart Home

278 Pages·2003·2.04 MB·English

by  Richard Harper

Inside the Smart Home
Richard Harper,
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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–
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ISBN 1852336889
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Inside the smart home / Richard Harper (ed.).
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ISBN 1–85233–688–9 (alk. paper)
1. Home automation. 2. Households. 3. Lifestyles.
4. Domestic engineering. I. Harper, Richard, 1960–
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1111 Part 3 The Home of the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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14 1.3 Structure of the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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16 Part 1 Conceptions of the Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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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
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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
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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
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