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Hacking the Natural Habitat: An In-the-Wild Study of Smart Homes, Their Development, and the People Who Live in Them

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Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012)

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Commercial home automation systems are becoming increasingly common, affording the opportunity to study technology-augmented homes in real world contexts. In order to understand how these technologies are being integrated into homes and their effects on inhabitants, we conducted a qualitative study involving smart home professionals who provide such technology, people currently in the process of planning or building smart homes, and people currently living in smart homes. We identified motivations for bringing smart technology into homes, and the phases involved in making a home smart. We also explored the varied roles of the smart home inhabitants that emerged during these phases, and several of the challenges and benefits that arise while living in a smart home. Based on these findings we propose open areas and new directions for smart home research.

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  1. Zurich People and Computing Lab, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Sarah Mennicken & Elaine M. Huang

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  1. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia

    Judy Kay

  2. DFKI GmbH, Embedded Intelligence, Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Paul Lukowicz

  3. Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, 5322, Endo, 252-8520, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hideyuki Tokuda

  4. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  5. DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Antonio Krüger

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Mennicken, S., Huang, E.M. (2012). Hacking the Natural Habitat: An In-the-Wild Study of Smart Homes, Their Development, and the People Who Live in Them. In: Kay, J., Lukowicz, P., Tokuda, H., Olivier, P., Krüger, A. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31205-2_10

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