Paper Info
Title
Protection, Productivity and Pleasure in the Smart Home - Emerging Expectations and Gendered Insights from Australian Early Adopters.
Abstract
Interest and uptake of smart home technologies has been lower than anticipated, particularly among women. Reporting on an academic-industry partnership, we present findings from an ethnographic study with 31 Australian smart home early adopters. The paper analyses these households' experiences in relation to three concepts central to Intel's ambient computing vision for the home: protection, productivity and pleasure, or 'the 3Ps'. We find that protection is a form of caregiving; productivity provides 'small conveniences', energy savings and multi-tasking possibilities; and pleasure is derived from ambient and aesthetic features, and the joy of 'playing around' with tech. Our analysis identifies three design challenges and opportunities for the smart home: internal threats to household protection; feminine desires for the smart home; and increased 'digital housekeeping'. We conclude by suggesting how HCI designers can and should respond to these gendered challenges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290605.3300875
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
ethnography, gender/identity, home, smart environments/connected home
Ambient intelligence,Computer science,Home automation,Pleasure,Multimedia,General partnership,Ethnography,Marketing,Early adopter
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5970-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yolande A.A. Strengers11357.44
Jenny Kennedy201.69
Paula Arcari300.34
Larissa Nicholls431.52
Melissa Gregg500.34