Abstract
Through a systematic analysis of peer-reviewed literature, this chapter takes stock of the dominant research themes on smart homes and their users, and the linkages and disconnects between these themes. Key findings within each of nine themes are analysed in three groups: (1) views of the smart home—functional, instrumental, socio-technical; (2) users and the use of the smart home—prospective users, interactions and decisions, using technologies in the home; and (3) user-related challenges for realising the smart home—hardware and software, design, domestication. These themes are integrated into an analytical framework that identifies the presence or absence of cross-cutting relationships between different understandings of smart homes and their users. This analytical framework serves to organise, link, and integrate the empirical analysis in Chaps. 3–6 of the book. More broadly, the analytical framework shows how research on smart homes and their users can benefit by exploring and developing cross-cutting relationships between research themes and traditions.
Keywords
- Smart Home Technologies (SHTs)
- Socio-technical View
- Instrumental View
- User Interaction Technologies
- Smart Meters
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Hargreaves, T., Wilson, C. (2017). Analytical Framework for Research on Smart Homes and Their Users. In: Smart Homes and Their Users . Human–Computer Interaction Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68018-7_2
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