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With the entry of new technologies into the home, we are witnessing a proliferation of descriptors for the emerging home environment. These include such terms as smart homes, home automation and devices, the networked home, the home of the future, digital living, and of course the one offered in this book: the connected home. In general, they all seem to be pointing to the same story: that the modern home in this new media/internet age is undergoing a transformation. Home life as previously understood is changing. Computing and computers are of course central to this. But how and in what ways?
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This material is based upon work funded by the U.S. National Science foundation under Grant No. 0121232. Any opinions, findings and conclusions reflected in the material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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The 1999 survey was conducted as part of Project NOAH (National Outlook for Automation in the Home); 910 households were interviewed by telephone with a response rate of 36.3%. The 2003 and 2008 surveys were conducted as part of Project POINT (People, Organizations and Information Technology); 1200 telephone interviews were completed for each survey with response rates of 44.3% (2003) and 26.2% (2008). The 2010 survey (also part of Project POINT) sampled both landline and cell phone only households with response rates of 24.1% for the cell phone only sample and 30.7% for the landline sample (landline sample also included cell phone users).
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Venkatesh, A., Dunkle, D., Wortman, A. (2011). Family Life, Children and the Feminization of Computing. In: Harper, R. (eds) The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-476-0_4
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