“Home is where the smart is”? Evaluating smart home research and approaches against the concept of home

Pre- and Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Resident Motivations for and Experiences of Establishing a Home in a Low-Carbon Development

“…This standard can be met through natural ventilation, orientation of the dwelling to take advantage of the sun, shading through awnings and verandas and building materials used, including double glazing. The WGV development studied consists of multiple dwelling types and will comprise approximately 80 dwellings when completed, including multi-story dwellings flexibly connected to a broader energy system so that a home is no longer a single dwelling but part of a system (as discussed in [32]). The first residents began moving in to WGV in mid-2017.…”

“…Security and safety [28,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] A place to raise children and have relationships over generations [28,29,32,34,[36][37][38][40][41][42][43][44] An asset, a place to own [35][36][37][38]40] A place to spend time and undertake activities [32,37,40,41,[43][44][45] A place for privacy, a haven and being away from the world [28,29,34,[36][37][38]44,46] A place to do what you like in, a sense of control [28,32,34,[36][37][38][39][40]42,…”

“…This research also investigates the meanings and emotional landscapes attributed to homes by LCD residents. There are different perspectives of the home advocated through the literature that have provided succinct overviews of the research undertaken, and a selection of these aspects have been compiled in Table 1 [27][28][29][30][31][32]. As [33] states, a home is a feeling, a sense of comfort or belonging, and not necessarily a location.…”

The Internet of Things: Social dimensions

“…“Smart” often refers to energy efficiency, but it can also suggest a high level of sophistication of communication between the devices in the network, sensitivity, and responsiveness to changes in the environment (often involving AI and machine learning) as well as referring to the insights that can be garnered from the reams of digital data generated, processed, and exchanged by the technologies (Allhoff & Henschke, ; Gram‐Hanssen & Darby, ). In these representations, smart things are often portrayed as possessing agencies distinct from the humans who are parts of their assemblages (Gram‐Hanssen & Darby, ). IoT technologies are portrayed as contributing to the generation of “smart” people rather than people being actively positioned as making the technologies smarter (Kitchin, ; Vanolo, ).…”

Editing out unsustainability from consumption: From information provision to nudging and social practice theory

“…In contrast, there is no similar understanding of different uses of the home (and thus different energy-related practices at home). A practice-theoretical approach could provide some tools in answering questions such as how to move from maintaining the present practices to questioning what energy is for and what kind of services it provides (Shove, 2018), what a home is, how different aspects of the home are related to energy use and where the boundaries of control and cooperation are drawn (Gram-Hanssen and Darby, 2018;Wallenborn and Wilhite, 2014), and what kinds of expectations and diversification of consumption are created by new technologies (Pantzar and Shove, 2010;Røpke and Christensen, 2013).…”