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Experience by Cohabitation: Living in a Smart Home Initiated by Your Partner

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Setting up a smart home network in a shared household is typically initiated by individuals with a strong interest in technology, who consider the corresponding research, purchases, installation, and maintenance required, a hobby. Other people living in the same household, such as partners, are thus exposed to the technology. We interviewed 12 female users whose partners set up smart home networks in the shared home. From the perspective of the individuals confronted with technology usage, we explored adoption and acceptance processes and how they collaborate as a couple in designing their shared, connected home. To form the interview guideline, we conducted a pre-study in which we analyzed a sample of online forum threads, in which smart home hobbyists discuss challenges and tensions that arise with their partners. Proceeding from the insight that creating a shared smart home is a process highly influenced by the roles users assume in the household, we contribute to understanding the perception of smart home benefits, appreciation, and participation from the angle of users who did not initiate the setup of the network.

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Schulz, A.S., Müller, J., Beruscha, F. (2023). Experience by Cohabitation: Living in a Smart Home Initiated by Your Partner. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14144. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42286-7_17

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