Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Designing the Proactive Home


Useful for my dissertation.

Designing the Proactive Home from Future Now.

"I recently was doing a lot of reading on smart home research, and just came across what looks like a great piece:

Frans Mayra & Tere Vaden, "Ethics of Living Technology: Design Principles for Proactive Home Environments, Human IT 7:2 (7/2004). PDF.

"The entry of proactive technology into highly sensitive environments, such as the home, produces specific design challenges that are inextricably linked to ethical issues. Two design goals are presented and analysed: proactive solutions have to be both personalized and consistent. These requirements are partially contradictory, and need to be understood in the context of the sociocognitive setting of the home. The embedding of proactive technology into a home environment has to provide the user with an awareness of the possibilities of control and play. These design goals are further developed with regard to different user cultures: here we concentrate on early adopters and elderly people."

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