The Future Home is Wise, Not Smart A Human-Centric Perspective on Next Generation Domestic Technologies /

• Main Author: Leitner, Gerhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Application software.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Community and Environmental Psychology.

This book introduces the concept of the wise home. Whilst smart homes focus on automation technologies, forcing users to deal with complex and incomprehensible control and programming procedures, the wise home is different. By going beyond intelligence (or smartness) the wise home puts technology in...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I: The Current State in Smartness
• Wise – The Difference Between Smart and Smart-Ass
• Why is it Called Human-Computer Interaction but focuses on Computing Instead
• The Different Meanings of Home
• Part II: The Wise Approach: Fromm Sweet, through to Smart and WISE
• A Focused Survey on Technology from Hypocaust to Smart Appliances
• The Theoretical Foundations of the Wise Home
• Empirical Foundations of WISE
• Part III: The WISE Home of the Future
• The Proof of the WISE Concept
• The WISE Future of Home Technology
• Epilogue.