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Smart Homes and Their Users

:	Tom Hargreaves, Charlie Wilson
:	Smart Homes and Their Users
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783319680187
:	1
:	CHF 52.20
:

:	Betriebssysteme, Benutzeroberflächen
:	English

:	135
:	Wasserzeichen/DRM
:	PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
:	PDF

Smart home technologies promise to transform domestic comfort, convenience, security and leisure while also reducing energy use. But delivering on these potentially conflicting promises depends on how they are adopted and used in homes.

This book starts by developing a new analytical framework for understanding smart homes and their users. Drawing on a range of new empirical research combining both qualitative and quantitative data, the book then explores how smart home technologies are perceived by potential users, how they can be used to link domestic energy use to common daily activities, how they may (or may not) be integrated into everyday life by actual users, and how they serve to change the nature of control within households and the home. The book concludes by synthesising a range of evidence-based insights, and posing a series of challenges for industry, policy, and research that need addressing if a smart home future is to be realised. Researchers will find this book provides useful insights into this fast-growing field

	Copyright	6
	Preface	7
	Acknowledgements	8
	Contents	10
	Abbreviations	13
	List of Figures	14
	List of Tables	16
	1 Introduction: Smart Homes and Their Users	17
	Abstract	17
	1.1 The Smart Home Promise	17
	1.2 What About the Users of Smart Home Technologies?	19
	1.3 Purpose and Overview of This Book	22
	1.4 New Data and Analysis	23
	References	28
	2 Analytical Framework for Research on Smart Homes and Their Users	31
	Abstract	31
	2.1 Introduction and Key Questions	31
	2.2 Research Themes	32
	2.3 Views of the Smart Home	34
	2.4 Users and the Use of Smart Homes	37
	2.5 User-Centred Challenges for Realising the Smart Home	40
	2.6 Analytical Framework for Research on Smart Homes and Their Users	43
	2.7 Suggested Further Reading	46
	References	46
	3 Perceived Benefits and Risks of Smart Home Technologies	51
	Abstract	51
	3.1 Introduction and Key Questions	51
	3.2 Method and Data	52
	3.3 Results: Prospective Users’ Perceptions of Benefits and Risks	57
	3.4 Results: Distinctive Perceptions and Characteristics of Early Adopters	60
	3.5 Results: Alignment of Industry Marketing with User Perceptions	63
	3.6 Synthesis	65
	3.7 Suggested Further Reading	68
	References	69
	4 Routines and Energy Intensity of Activities in the Smart Home	70
	Abstract	70
	4.1 Introduction and Key Questions	70
	4.2 Method	71
	4.3 Data	76
	4.4 Results: Time Profile of Activity-Based Electricity Demand	78
	4.5 Results: Energy Intensity of Domestic Activities	79
	4.6 Results: Routines and Rhythms in Domestic Activities	82
	4.7 Results: Activities in Households with Similar Composition	84
	4.8 Synthesis	86
	4.9 Suggested Further Reading	87
	References	87
	5 Domestication of Smart Home Technologies	89
	Abstract	89
	5.1 Introduction and Key Question	89
	5.2 Method and Data	91
	5.3 Results: Patterns of Use	92
	5.4 Results: Household Dynamics	95
	5.5 Results: Learning	96
	5.6 Results: Domestication Pathways	98
	5.7 Synthesis	101
	5.8 Suggested Further Reading	103
	References	103
	6 Control of Smart Home Technologies	105
	Abstract	105
	6.1 Introduction and Key Question	105
	6.2 Method and Data	108
	6.3 Results: Artefactual Control	109
	6.4 Results: Perceptual Control	111
	6.5 Results: Relational Control	113
	6.6 Synthesis	115
	6.7 Suggested Further Reading	117
	References	118
	7 Conclusions and Implications for Industry, Policy and Research	120
	Abstract	120
	7.1 Summary of Key Insights	120
	7.2 The Importance of Cross-Cutting, Integrative Research on Smart Homes and Their Users	123
	7.3 Implications for Industry	128
	7.4 Implications for Policy	130
	7.5 Implications for Research	132
	References	134