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How Smart Homes Learn: The Evolution of the Networked Home and Household

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Despite a growing desire to create smart homes, we know little about how networked technologies interact with a house’s infrastructure. In this paper, we begin to close this gap by presenting findings from a study that examined the relationship between home networking and the house itself—and the work that results for householders as a consequence of this interaction. We discuss four themes that emerged: an ambiguity in understanding the virtual boundaries created by wireless networks, the home network control paradox, a new home network access paradox, and the relationship between increased responsibilities and the possibilities of wireless networking.

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  1. GVU Center & School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30308, USA

    Marshini Chetty, Ja-Young Sung & Rebecca E. Grinter

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Chetty, M., Sung, JY., Grinter, R.E. (2007). How Smart Homes Learn: The Evolution of the Networked Home and Household. In: Krumm, J., Abowd, G.D., Seneviratne, A., Strang, T. (eds) UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74853-3_8

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