Systematic analysis and key challenges of Smart homes and their users

Published research on smart homes and their users is growing exponentially, yet a clear understanding of who these users are and how they might use smart home technologies is missing from a field being overwhelmingly pushed by technology developers. Through a systematic analysis of peer-reviewed literature on smart homes and their users, this paper takes stock of the dominant research themes and the linkages and disconnects betweenthem. Key findings within each of nine themes are analyzed, grouped into three: (1) views of the smart home functional, instrumental, socio-technical; (2) users and the use of thesmart home prospective users, interactions and decisions, using technologies in the home;and (3) challenges for realizing the smart home hardware and soft- ware, design, domestication. These themes are integrated into an organizing framework for futureresearch that identifies the presence or absence of cross-cutting relationships between different understandings of smart homes and their users. The usefulness of the organizingframe- work is illustrated in relation to two major concerns privacy and control that have been narrowly interpreted to date, precluding deeper insights and potential solutions. Future research on smart homes and their users can benefit by exploring and developing cross cutting relationships between the research themes identified.

کلیدواژه ها:

Smart homes ، Users ، Technologies ، Energy ، living