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FROM TODAY’S AUGMENTED HOUSES TO TOMORROW’S SMART HOMES UbiComp 2014 Seattle, 09/15/2014 Sarah Mennicken, Jo Vermeulen, Elaine Huang NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SMART HOME RESEARCH

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FROM TODAY’S AUGMENTED HOUSES TO TOMORROW’S SMART HOMES

UbiComp 2014Seattle, 09/15/2014

Sarah Mennicken, Jo Vermeulen, Elaine Huang

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SMART HOME RESEARCH

Future smart homes will collaborate with their inhabitants and identify opportunities for automation that support their goals and values.

KEY TAKE AWAY

3Edwards & Grinter 2001

MOTIVATION

•Smart homes are not an under-explored field anymore.

3Edwards & Grinter 2001

MOTIVATION

•Smart homes are not an under-explored field anymore.•Lots of related work in research•Increasing commercial smart home solutions

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MOTIVATION

•Smart homes are not an under-explored field anymore.•Lots of related work in research•Increasing commercial smart home solutions

•Visions and challenges keep on evolving.

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MOTIVATION

METHOD

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METHOD

•Literature review •Initial set of papers + top 50 ACM DL results (“home automation” ,“smart home”) = 131 papers, posters, and reports

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METHOD

•Literature review •Initial set of papers + top 50 ACM DL results (“home automation” ,“smart home”) = 131 papers, posters, and reports

•Focus on domestic environments and/or user experience?

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METHOD

•Literature review •Initial set of papers + top 50 ACM DL results (“home automation” ,“smart home”) = 131 papers, posters, and reports

•Focus on domestic environments and/or user experience?

•Affinity Diagramming on 47 most relevant papers

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METHOD

•Literature review •Initial set of papers + top 50 ACM DL results (“home automation” ,“smart home”) = 131 papers, posters, and reports

•Focus on domestic environments and/or user experience?

•Affinity Diagramming on 47 most relevant papers

•Industry and home observations4

1. Challenges for Research and Practice2. Visions for Future Smart Homes

OVERVIEW

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… the past …the present

Technical feasibility and interoperabilitye.g., Edwards and Grinter 2001

Meaningful technologiese.g., Harper 2011, Rode 2012

CHALLENGES

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CHALLENGES

… the past …the present

Complex domestic spacese.g., Tolmie et al. 2002

Increasing complexity due to more users, more devices, more modalitiese.g., Harper 2011, Urban et al. 2011

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… the past …the present

End-user configuration of sensors and actuatorse.g., Dey and Sohn 2003, Humble et al. 2003, Truong et al. 2004

Understanding and interacting with machine learning and artificial intelligencee.g., Stumpf et al. 2012, Yang and Newman 2013

CHALLENGES

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CHALLENGES ➔ VISIONS

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Understanding machine learning and interacting with artificial intelligence

Future smart homes will collaborate with their inhabitants.

CHALLENGES ➔ VISIONS

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Understanding machine learning and interacting with artificial intelligence

Future smart homes will collaborate with their inhabitants.

Increasing complexity due to more users, more devices, more modalities

Future smart homes will help to identify opportunities for automation.

CHALLENGES ➔ VISIONS

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Understanding machine learning and interacting with artificial intelligence

Future smart homes will collaborate with their inhabitants.

Increasing complexity due to more users, more devices, more modalities

Future smart homes will help to identify opportunities for automation.

Meaningful technologies Future smart homes will support their goals and values.

CHALLENGES ➔ VISIONS

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How will future smart homes collaborate with their inhabitants?

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How will future smart homes collaborate with their inhabitants?

Mediation and intelligibility are key Bellotti & Edwards 2001, Yang et al. 2013

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How will future smart homes collaborate with their inhabitants?

Mediation and intelligibility are key Bellotti & Edwards 2001, Yang et al. 2013

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How will future smart homes collaborate with their inhabitants?

Mediation and intelligibility are key Bellotti & Edwards 2001, Yang et al. 2013

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How will future smart homes collaborate with their inhabitants?

Mediation and intelligibility are key Bellotti & Edwards 2001, Yang et al. 2013

Focus on deviations and exceptions from routines Davidoff et al. 2006

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How can future smart homes help to identify opportunities for automation?

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How can future smart homes help to identify opportunities for automation?

Maintaining discoverability of desirable solutions as complexity of sensor/actuator networks increases.

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How can future smart homes help to identify opportunities for automation?

Maintaining discoverability of desirable solutions as complexity of sensor/actuator networks increases.

Dixon et al. 2010

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How can future smart homes help to identify opportunities for automation?

Maintaining discoverability of desirable solutions as complexity of sensor/actuator networks increases.

Dixon et al. 2010

studied by Ur et al. 2014

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How will future smart homes support goals and values?

Interest in achieving peace of mind Brush et al. 2011, Mennicken & Huang 2012Feeling connected to one’s home Takayama et al. 2012

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How will future smart homes support goals and values?

Interest in achieving peace of mind Brush et al. 2011, Mennicken & Huang 2012Feeling connected to one’s home Takayama et al. 2012

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How will future smart homes support goals and values?

+ = ?Interest in achieving peace of mind Brush et al. 2011, Mennicken & Huang 2012Feeling connected to one’s home Takayama et al. 2012

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How will future smart homes support goals and values?

+ = ?

+ =? ?feeling like good parentsLee at al. 2008construction of family identity Davidoff et al. 2006

Interest in achieving peace of mind Brush et al. 2011, Mennicken & Huang 2012Feeling connected to one’s home Takayama et al. 2012

Future smart homes will collaborate with their inhabitants and identify opportunities for automation that support their goals and values.

KEY TAKE AWAY

Many thanks to Gunnar Harboe, Helen He, Christian Remy, Kris Luyten, Johannes Schöning, and Blase Ur.

Thanks to all the researchers sharing their work with us to build upon!

THANKS!

FROM TODAY’S AUGMENTED HOUSES TO TOMORROW’S SMART HOMES

[email protected]

Sarah Mennicken, Jo Vermeulen, Elaine Huang

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SMART HOME RESEARCH

collaboration

opportunities for automation

goals and values