From Domestic Science to Intelligent Home Peter Excell and Penny Scaffold

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From Domestic Science to Intelligent HomePeter
Excell and Penny Scaffold
Department of Electronic Imaging and Media
Communications University of Bradford, UK
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Progression Towards the Intelligent Home

• Why hasn't it happened already?
• Commoditisation
• Technological adaptation in domestic products
• Invention of the generic product
• Production of prototypes
• Serial production of small volumes at high cost
• Commoditisation huge quantities at low cost

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Progression Towards the Intelligent Home

• E.g. lightbulb, electric motor, computer
  processor
• Computer processor (?P) use in home still small
• Why? Breakthrough and vision needed
• Price? Convenience? Real uses?
• Why is the domestic robot taking such a long time
  coming?
• Is it essential that we have a humanoid robot?

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Progression Towards the Intelligent Home

• Automated vacuum-cleaner is a hesitant step in
  this direction
• Why not a "factory" approach to home automation?
• Is the home hopelessly inefficient?

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Progression Towards the Intelligent Home

• Debates and arguments (Dialectics?)
• Intelligence vs processing power
• Convergence and divergence
• Yin vs Yang
• Efficiency vs sociability
• What about science technology issues?
• Is the mobile phone a key technology, expanding
  from the remote control?