PhD thesis,
Designing Smart Home Appliances Displaying Non-Urgend Everyday Information
University of Stuttgart, (2021)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-11678
Abstract
In the smart home era living environments are significantly changing. Smart
home technologies offer new opportunities for the users to control or monitor
their smart home appliances. In the near future, smart home appliances may
need to inform their users about everyday home details, such as their current
states. Previous work already investigated the users’ acceptance of smart home
notifications presenting everyday information. However, little research has been
done on how users can access the everyday home information.
This thesis examines how smart home appliances presenting everyday home
information should be designed. It reports about nine user studies investigating
either the context of use or the user requirements for smart home appliances
presenting everyday home information or evaluating the design solutions for the
investigated research probes. As a result of this, we focus on which modalities, locations and information strategies should be used to convey everyday information
in a smart home context. In addition, we study how smart home appliances cab be
designed to suit to the users’ complex daily routines. We further investigate which
evaluation methods are suitable for evaluating of smart home appliances presenting
everyday home information. This thesis contributes insights into advantages
and disadvantages for various evaluation methods and design guidelines for the
development of smart home appliances that present everyday home information.
