Ebook: The Connected Home: the Future of Domestic Life

""The Smart Home"" was published in 2003 at a time when it was thought that the smart home would have materialized by now. It was believed that technology would take on more responsibility and that life at home would be more relaxed because there would be less labor for humans. But it never became a reality -- what happened? ""The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life"" looks at what has developed since the publication of The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life - homes have altered or rather homes haven't altered but what people do in homes has changed. Divided into four sections.;Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Part I Setting the Scene; 1 From Smart Home to Connected Home; Introduction; A Changing World; The Purpose of the Book; Overview of the Chapters; References; 2 The Networked Home: The Way of the Future or a Vision Too Far?; A Day in the Life of a Connected Home; What We Predicted in 2000 That We Would Use in 2010; Segmenting Home Use; Is It Worth Predicting?; Our Observations; What We Predict Now That We Will Use in 2020; Life at Home; References; 3 Changing Times: Home Life and Domestic Habit; Introduction; Measuring Time Use.