Book The Connected Home : The Future of Domestic Life (2011, Paperback) by PDF, MOBI
9780857294753 English 085729475X SThe Smart Home was published in 2003 at a time when it was thought that the smart home would have materialized by now. It was believed that technology would take on more responsibility and that life at home would be more relaxed because there would be less labor for humans. But it never became a reality “ what happened? "At Home with Smart Technologies" looks at what has developed since the publication of Inside the Smart Home - homes have altered or rather homes haven "t altered but what people do in homes has changed. Divided into four sections: State of Play, Technology and Social Practice, Identity and Family, and Infrastructures of the Future, this book explores how they are different, why they are different and how they might continue to alter. It includes an in-depth study of the changing intersection of technology and human habit in the home setting. For example, the increase in the use of search engines and online gaming. It demonstrates how interactive entertainment and broadcast content are affecting the domestic hearth. It also looks at how technologies are changing the sense people have of themselves as members of households and families. New technology can create a nearness of families in a real and virtual sense, for example, video calling using skype., The Smart Home was published in 2003 at a time when it was thought that the smart home would have materialized by now. It was believed that technology would take on more responsibility and that life at home would be more relaxed because there would be less labor for humans. But it never became a reality -- what happened? The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life looks at what has developed since the publication of The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life - homes have altered or rather homes haven't altered but what people do in homes has changed. Divided into four sections: State of Play, Technology and Social Practice, Identity and Family, and Infrastructures of the Future, this book explores how they are different, why they are different and how they might continue to alter. It includes an in-depth study of the changing intersection of technology and human habit in the home setting. For example, the increase in the use of search engines and online gaming. It demonstrates how interactive entertainment and broadcast content are affecting the domestic hearth. It also looks at how technologies are changing the sense people have of themselves as members of households and families. New technology can create a nearness of families in a real and virtual sense, for example, video calling using skype., The title of this new book: SThe Connected Home reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education ' and even eating! Up until around 10 years ago this view was commonplace but time has shown that the technologies to support a smart home have not developed in such a way as to support this premise. Instead, what people do in their homes has moved the concept of a smart home into that of the connected home ". The rise of on-line games technologies, video connections via Skype, social networking, internet browsing etc are now an integral part of the home environment and have had a significant effect on the home.The contributors to this exciting new book consider and discuss the effects and ramifications of the connected home from a variety of viewpoints: an examination of the take-up of personal computers and the Internet in domestic situations; an analysis of the changing intersection of technology and human habits in the connected home; the impact of gaming, texting, e-book readers, tablets and other devices and their effect on the social conditions of a household; the relationship between digital messaging applications and real geography; and an overview of how sensing technologies for the smart home might evolve (lightweight medical technologies for example). The book culminates by addressing unfinished ambitions from the smart home agenda, the factors that have prevented their realisation, and addresses the need for extending research into the area., The title of this new book: The Connected Home reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education - and even eating! Up until around 10 years ago this view was commonplace but time has shown that the technologies to support a smart home have not developed in such a way as to support this premise. Instead, what people do in their homes has moved the concept of a smart home into that of the 'connected home'.� The rise of on-line games technologies, video connections via Skype, social networking, internet browsing etc are now an integral part of the home environment and have had a significant effect on the home.The contributors to this exciting new book consider and discuss the effects and ramifications of the connected home from a variety of viewpoints: an examination of the take-up of personal computers and the Internet in domestic situations; an analysis of the changing intersection of technology and human habits in the connected home; the impact of gaming, texting, e-book readers, tablets and other devices and their effect on the social conditions of a household; the relationship between digital messaging applications and real geography; and an overview of how sensing technologies for the smart home might evolve (lightweight medical technologies for example). The book culminates by addressing unfinished ambitions from the smart home agenda, the factors that have prevented their realisation, and addresses the need for extending research into the area.
9780857294753 English 085729475X SThe Smart Home was published in 2003 at a time when it was thought that the smart home would have materialized by now. It was believed that technology would take on more responsibility and that life at home would be more relaxed because there would be less labor for humans. But it never became a reality “ what happened? "At Home with Smart Technologies" looks at what has developed since the publication of Inside the Smart Home - homes have altered or rather homes haven "t altered but what people do in homes has changed. Divided into four sections: State of Play, Technology and Social Practice, Identity and Family, and Infrastructures of the Future, this book explores how they are different, why they are different and how they might continue to alter. It includes an in-depth study of the changing intersection of technology and human habit in the home setting. For example, the increase in the use of search engines and online gaming. It demonstrates how interactive entertainment and broadcast content are affecting the domestic hearth. It also looks at how technologies are changing the sense people have of themselves as members of households and families. New technology can create a nearness of families in a real and virtual sense, for example, video calling using skype., The Smart Home was published in 2003 at a time when it was thought that the smart home would have materialized by now. It was believed that technology would take on more responsibility and that life at home would be more relaxed because there would be less labor for humans. But it never became a reality -- what happened? The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life looks at what has developed since the publication of The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life - homes have altered or rather homes haven't altered but what people do in homes has changed. Divided into four sections: State of Play, Technology and Social Practice, Identity and Family, and Infrastructures of the Future, this book explores how they are different, why they are different and how they might continue to alter. It includes an in-depth study of the changing intersection of technology and human habit in the home setting. For example, the increase in the use of search engines and online gaming. It demonstrates how interactive entertainment and broadcast content are affecting the domestic hearth. It also looks at how technologies are changing the sense people have of themselves as members of households and families. New technology can create a nearness of families in a real and virtual sense, for example, video calling using skype., The title of this new book: SThe Connected Home reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education ' and even eating! Up until around 10 years ago this view was commonplace but time has shown that the technologies to support a smart home have not developed in such a way as to support this premise. Instead, what people do in their homes has moved the concept of a smart home into that of the connected home ". The rise of on-line games technologies, video connections via Skype, social networking, internet browsing etc are now an integral part of the home environment and have had a significant effect on the home.The contributors to this exciting new book consider and discuss the effects and ramifications of the connected home from a variety of viewpoints: an examination of the take-up of personal computers and the Internet in domestic situations; an analysis of the changing intersection of technology and human habits in the connected home; the impact of gaming, texting, e-book readers, tablets and other devices and their effect on the social conditions of a household; the relationship between digital messaging applications and real geography; and an overview of how sensing technologies for the smart home might evolve (lightweight medical technologies for example). The book culminates by addressing unfinished ambitions from the smart home agenda, the factors that have prevented their realisation, and addresses the need for extending research into the area., The title of this new book: The Connected Home reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education - and even eating! Up until around 10 years ago this view was commonplace but time has shown that the technologies to support a smart home have not developed in such a way as to support this premise. Instead, what people do in their homes has moved the concept of a smart home into that of the 'connected home'.� The rise of on-line games technologies, video connections via Skype, social networking, internet browsing etc are now an integral part of the home environment and have had a significant effect on the home.The contributors to this exciting new book consider and discuss the effects and ramifications of the connected home from a variety of viewpoints: an examination of the take-up of personal computers and the Internet in domestic situations; an analysis of the changing intersection of technology and human habits in the connected home; the impact of gaming, texting, e-book readers, tablets and other devices and their effect on the social conditions of a household; the relationship between digital messaging applications and real geography; and an overview of how sensing technologies for the smart home might evolve (lightweight medical technologies for example). The book culminates by addressing unfinished ambitions from the smart home agenda, the factors that have prevented their realisation, and addresses the need for extending research into the area.