The Future Home Is Wise, Not Smart: A Human-Centric Perspective on Next Generation Domestic Technologies (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface.- Part I: The Current State in Smartness .- Wise - The Difference Between Smart and Smart-Ass.- Why is it Called Human-Computer Interaction but focuses on Computing Instead.- The Different Meanings of Home.- Part II: The Wise Approach: Fromm Sweet, through to Smart and WISE .- A Focused Survey on Technology from Hypocaust to Smart Appliances.- The Theoretical Foundations of the Wise Home.- Empirical Foundations of WISE.- Part III: The WISE Home of the Future .- The Proof of the WISE Concept.- The WISE Future of Home Technology.- Epilogue.