Rethinking the Smart Home

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Rethinking theSmart Home

• By Lauren Swan, Shahram Izadi, Richard Harper,
  Alex Taylor, Abigail Sellen, and Mark Perry

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Whos the smart one?

• Technology doesnt have to be very smart because
  people are
• Offer resources for people to think and act upon

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Fridge Surfaces

• Assign different area to a different purpose
• Enhance unintelligent surface that fit with
  current lifestyle
• Surface that everyone has to look at

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Augmented Refrigerator Magnets

• Consistent, unobtrusive way of drawing attention
  to annotations
• Way to access things while away from home

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HomeNote

• Polite, unobtrusive way to make requests
• Less intrusive person to place messaging
• Social touch allows informal scribbling

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Whereabout Clock

• Unobtrusive people finder device
• Broad categories of locations to address privacy
  issues and context
• Situation is more informative than a location

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Picture Bowl

• Analogy to stacks of clutter/mail in the house.
• Digital information may better live in physical
  space.
• Provides visibility, portability, and privacy

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Takeaways

• Push! Providing information without demanding
  attention
• Home extends outside the borders of the house
• Utilize existing surfaces in pivotal locations