Davidoff, S., Lee, M. K., Dey, A. K., and Zimmerman, J. (2006). Socially-aware requirements for a smart home. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2006), 45-48. | Bibtex

The majority of smart home research has focused on novel technical artifacts, but has overlooked the issues surrounding social relationships in the home. We argue in favor of research that is sensitive to and functions within the social constraints of dual income family homes. This paper describes our grounded contextual fieldwork with real families in their homes, and identifies socially-aware concepts smart home systems will need to address.

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