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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reig, Samantha
• Carter, Elizabeth J.
• Kirabo, Lynn
• Fong, Terrence
• Steinfeld, Aaron
• Forlizzi, Jodi

Titel

Dreaming Up Smart Home Futures: A Story Completion Study

Ist Teil von

• 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023, p.1020-1027

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Virtual assistants, vacuum robots, security systems, and other smart home technologies are rapidly advancing, evolving, and gaining popularity. This raises questions of how people envision future interactions with smart home systems and how they imagine the future roles of such technologies in society. We deployed an online study that collected fictional short stories from 60 participants about smart home interactions. We identified themes regarding the roles of smart home technologies, social interactions with AI, and concerns about data privacy in the context of the home. We describe our method, discuss insights from the stories that explicitly reflect possible futures and implicitly reflect the present, and make design recommendations based on our findings.