Protection, Productivity and Pleasure in the Smart Home - Emerging Expectations and Gendered Insights from Australian Early Adopters

Explore an ethnographic study on smart home early adopters in Australia, focusing on protection, productivity, and pleasure as central concepts in ambient computing for homes. Delve into gendered insights and challenges, including caregiving aspects of protection, convenience and energy-saving features of productivity, and the aesthetic pleasures of smart home technology. Examine design opportunities addressing internal household threats, feminine desires in smart homes, and the emergence of 'digital housekeeping'. Learn how HCI designers can respond to these gendered challenges in smart home technology adoption and use.