This article develops concepts of what the home is and reflects on smart home technology
and the research literature on smart homes in relation to these concepts. The focus is on the …

Expectations are high with regards to smart home technology. In particular, smart home
technology is expected to support or enable independent living by older adults. This raises …

Resonating with the industrial revolution of the home (Schwartz Cowan, 1989), the smart
home 'digital revolution'reinvigorates promises for convenience. This paper analyses the …

Interest and uptake of smart home technologies has been lower than anticipated, particularly
among women. Reporting on an academic-industry partnership, we present findings from an …

Increasing technological developments indicate potential for a variety of improvements in
the domestic environment. As part of an interdisciplinary research project, this study …

Smart home futures predicted and promoted in the discourses and practices of industry
increasingly figure forms of automated decision making (ADM) into existing narratives of …

This special issue explores a key question in the energy transition: how are visions,
relationships and practices with emerging technologies gendered, and what does this mean …

In this article we demonstrate how existing scenario-planning and forecasting methods
employed in the energy sector envision, prioritise and limit possible futures. We propose that …

This article analyses visions of everyday life embedded in the 21st-century smart home,
specifically the promoted aspiration to generate escalated aesthetic pleasures or …

In recent years, household sustainability has received increasing attention in the field of
Human-Computer Interaction. This has largely been driven by the argument that through …