Visions of smart homes have long caught the attention of researchers and considerable
effort has been put toward enabling home automation. However, these technologies have …

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

Commercial home automation systems are becoming increasingly common, affording the
opportunity to study technology-augmented homes in real world contexts. In order to …

This book is very much the result of a personal journey through our experiences of doing
ethnography as fieldworkers and as teachers of research methods, particularly qualitative …

Recently, households have begun to adopt networking technologies to interconnect devices
within the home. Yet little is known about the consequences for households of setting up and …

Smart homes embrace advanced technologies and the connectedness of devices that aim to
increase consumers' life quality. They are based on data integration over shared platforms …

A key issue for smart home systems is supporting non-expert users in their management.
Whereas feedback design on use cases (such as energy feedback) have gained attention …

Smart home systems are becoming an integral feature of the emerging home IT market.
Under this general term, products mainly address issues of security, energy savings and …

As smart devices are becoming commonplace in homes, we need to explore the needs of
not just the residents of the home, but also of secondary stakeholders who may be granted …

Smart devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and smart watches are designed under the
assumption that they will be used by a single user. In contrast, many other devices, such as …