User Requirements for the Design of Smart Homes: Dimensions and Goals.

摘要: The ‘Smart Home’ is a strongly technology-driven field. While user-centered requirements have been reported for specific features, considerable gap persists design based on an everyday home context and the social emotional nature of home. To address this, we identify leverage points functionalities energy-efficiency smart control in domestic context. A three-step investigation user requirements, employing cultural probing, participatory fiction focus groups allowed us to progress from “as-is” towards blending with technological solutions. Our results highlight as complex construct imbued organically grown routines individual needs, values emotions. Based empirical, real-user data present features system expectations that this multifaceted overall picture. This paper advises process future solutions two facets: First, point out several dimensions, namely time, space, relations, factors, allow heterogeneity users situations. Second, derive goals directions design: control, low effort, integration, evolvability, identity, sociability, benefits.