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The data hungry home
conference contribution
posted on 2019-09-30, 14:20 authored by Matthew Lee-Smith, Tracy RossTracy Ross, Martin MaguireMartin Maguire, Fung Po TsoFung Po Tso, Jeremy Morley, Stephano CavazziIt's said that the pleasure is in the giving, not the receiving. This belief is validated by how humans interact with their family, friends and society as well as their gardens, homes, and pets. Yet for ubiquitous devices, this dynamic is reversed with devices as the donors and owners as the recipients. This paper explores an alternative paradigm where these devices are elevated, becoming members of Data Hungry Homes, allowing us to build relationships with them using the principles that we apply to family, pets or houseplants. These devices are developed to fit into a new concept of the home, can symbiotically interact with us and possess needs and traits that yield unexpected positive or negative outcomes from interacting with them. Such relationships could enrich our lives through our endeavours to “feed” our Data Hungry Homes, possibly leading us to explore new avenues and interactions outside and inside the home.
Funding
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Embedded Intelligence (under grant reference EP/L014998/1), Loughborough University and Ordnance Survey
History
School
- Science
Department
- Computer Science
Published in
Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 (HTTF 2019)Source
Halfway to the FuturePublisher
ACMVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Rights holder
© owner/authorsPublisher statement
© Owner/Author 2019. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 (HTTF 2019), https://doi.org/10.1145/3363384.3363390.Acceptance date
2019-09-18Publication date
2019-11-19Copyright date
2019ISBN
9781450372039Publisher version
Language
- en