ABSTRACT

Not infrequently, smart home imaginaries and installations are envisaged for nuclear families dwelling in detached houses fitted with the latest Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. In our article, we follow one approach to escape this powerful but inadequate projection that entails inviting people to imagine alternative forms of domestic IoT use. Surveying the setup of these nascent endeavours, in particular attempts that pivot on narrative accounts and forward-oriented fictions on the design of new habitats, we show how these seek to evoke visions of technologically supported cohabitation and everyday life. Due to their inclusive ambitions, such approaches face participatory predicaments that arise from the sought-after spontaneity and creativity within a purposive process. In response, all of them resort to methodological scaffolding that helps their designers to reconcile the tension between the idiosyncrasies embraced by the procedures and the overarching requirements of a particular exercise.

摘要

智能家居的设想和安装并不罕见，适用于居住在配备最新物联网 (IoT) 解决方案的独立住宅中的核心家庭。在我们的文章中，我们采用一种方法来避免这种强大但不充分的预测，这种预测需要邀请人们想象家庭物联网使用的替代形式。调查这些新生的努力的设置，特别是围绕新栖息地设计的叙事叙述和前瞻性小说的尝试，我们展示了这些尝试如何唤起技术支持的同居和日常生活的愿景。由于其包容性的雄心壮志，此类方法面临着参与性困境，这些困境源于有目的的过程中所追求的自发性和创造力。作为回应，