New Book - Inside The Smart Home...

["Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

PRESS RELEASE

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>From The Dream to Everyday Reality -=20

A New Exploration of the Smart Home

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(And you are entitled to a 20% discount)

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Inside The Smart Home
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Richard Harper (Ed.)

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August 2003,  264 pp,  Softcover,  ISBN: 1-85233-688-9,  =A335.00  ?59.95 
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sFr 99.50

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"A timely and much needed compliment to more technology-led
explorations of=
the Smart Home. It draws attention to the complexity, diversity and concep=
tual richness of domestic life and critically reflects on the adoption and
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use of technologies in the home to date."

Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Sapient Ltd, UK
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With contributions from leading experts in the field, and detailed case
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dies from international giants such as Orange, Ariston, Phillips
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s and Electrolux, this new book from Springer is a complete overview of
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past, present and future of home automation.=20

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Inside the Smart Home looks at the designs and technologies behind new
inno=
vations, along with their time-saving, environmental and security
benefits,=
amongst others. The book also examines the issues surrounding the fact tha=
t, despite their clear advantages, Smart Homes have so far failed to reach
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the levels of success originally anticipated.

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Inside the Smart Home is currently the only book to provide an overview of
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design and usability issues for smart, domestic technologies.

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"A fascinating insight into potentially one of the most exciting
developmen=
ts that affects each and every one of us as we move forward into the 21st
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entury. This book indicates the direction industry must take if we are to
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chieve the dream of living in a Smart Home."

Steve Hearnden, Mobile Telecommunications Consultant, UK
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Special Discount for Visitors to Automated Home
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The leading site for UK Home Automation enthusiasts has teamed up with the
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publishers, Springer, to offer a special 20% discount off the recommended
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rice. To order, Email marketing@xxxxxxx before 30th September and buy you=
r copy of Inside the Smart Home for only =A328.00

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(postage and packing  - =A33.00/?5.00 for the first book and an additional
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=A31.00/?3.00 per book thereafter.)

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Inside the Smart Home - Table of Contents
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1. Inside the Smart Home: Ideas, Possibilities and Methods

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Part I: Conceptions of the Home

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2. Smart Homes: Past, Present and Future

3. Households as Morally Ordered Communities: Explorations in the Dynamics
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of Domestic Life

4. Time as a Rare Commodity in Home Life

5. Emotional Context and 'Significancies' of Media

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Part II: Designing for the Home

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6. Paper Mail in the Home of the 21st Century

7. Switching On to Switch Off

8. The Social Context of Home Computing

9. Design with Care: Technology, Disability and the Home

Part III: The Home of the Future

10. Towards the Unremarkable Computer: Making Technology at Home in
Domesti=
c Routines

11. Daily Routines and Means of Communication in a Smart Home

12. Living Inside a Smart Home: A Case Study

13. Smart Home, Dumb Suppliers? The Future of Smart Homes Markets

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