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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 (o

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Gerhard Leitner

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

Computer Supported Cooperative Work Series editor Richard Harper, Social Shaping Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The CSCW series examines the dynamic interface of human nature, culture, and technology. Technology to support groups, once largely confined to workplaces, today affects all aspects of life. Analyses of “Collaboration, Sociality, Computation, and the Web” draw on social, computer and information sciences, aesthetics, and values. Each volume in the series provides a perspective on current knowledge and discussion for one topic, in monographs, edited collections, and textbooks appropriate for those studying, designing, or engaging with sociotechnical systems and artifacts. Titles published within the Computer Supported Cooperative Work series are included within Thomson Reuters’ Book Citation Index.

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Gerhard Leitner

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

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Gerhard Leitner Interactive Systems Research Group Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria

ISSN 1431-1496 Computer Supported Cooperative Work ISBN 978-3-319-23092-4 ISBN 978-3-319-23093-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23093-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015951452 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com)

Preface

Although it happened a reasonably long time ago I remember it like it was yesterday. At the end of the 1980s in my first years of studying, I was with friends at a Chinese Restaurant in Vienna (well, it wasn’t traditional, but it was economical). We were tal