This article reviewed the state-of-the-art applications of the Internet of things (IoT) technology
applied in homes for making them smart, automated, and digitalized in many respects. The …

Technological innovations, from ubiquitous computing, augmented reality,
telecommunication to intelligent appliances and robotics, bring new possibilities to the Smart …

Published research on smart homes and their users is growing exponentially, yet a clear
understanding of who these users are and how they might use smart home technologies is …

Smart homes promise to significantly enhance domestic comfort, convenience, security and
leisure whilst simultaneously reducing energy use through optimized home energy …

This study aims to address a research gap related to the outcomes of the use of technology
when the performance falls short of initial expectations, and the coping mechanisms that …

The first generation of Digital Natives (DNs) is now growing up. However, these digital
natives were rather late starters, since their exposure to computers started when they could …

A device for communicating including a housing including a camera, a microphone, a
speaker, a button, a battery, a sensor, non-volatile memory, a processor, and a wireless …

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of home health care to manage and monitor
one's health status in a home environment became more crucial than ever. This change …

This chapter introduces the book, its rationale and objectives, and the new data sources on
which much of the analysis is based. Smart home technologies (SHTs) are now …

In this paper we introduce the idea of organizing systems. Through a number of examples
from an ongoing ethnographic study of family life, we suggest that organizing systems come …