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Evolution of the smart home has, to a large extent, been driven by technological developments, frequently neglecting actual human needs and habits. To realize the vision of the Wise Home, a shift to a more human-centered approach is needed. In order to move to a more natural interaction, we must first accept that current interaction paradigms are unnatural. In nature, human communication is not based on a single modality, such as speech or gesture alone, but combines them as two separate but overlapping streams of communication.
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Brown, J.N.A., Fercher, A.J., Leitner, G. (2017). “…If I Had but the Time and You Had but the Brain…”: Computer-Centered Computing. In: Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home. Human–Computer Interaction Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56532-3_2
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