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Why Is It Called Human Computer Interaction, but Focused on Computers Instead?

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The Future Home is Wise, Not Smart

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This chapter is devoted to the basic scientific concepts and theories which serve as foundations for the WISE home. As has been pointed out in the previous section, my scientific background is in HCI. Therefore the following argument will be built upon that.

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Leitner, G. (2015). Why Is It Called Human Computer Interaction, but Focused on Computers Instead?. In: The Future Home is Wise, Not Smart. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23093-1_2

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