The Technology Is Enemy for Me at the Moment: How Smart Home Technologies Assert Control Beyond Intent

Nils Ehrenberg; Turkka Keinonen

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445058

The Technology Is Enemy for Me at the Moment: How Smart Home Technologies Assert Control Beyond Intent

Nils Ehrenberg, Turkka Keinonen

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Smart technology turns the home into an active agent, which shifts the power structure within the household. This paper examines how initiators of smart technology insert their vision of the good life into households, and how these technologies exert power over the residents. Through a thematic analysis of interviews with five households, we consider Foucault’s theory on disciplinary power to examine how smart home technologies shape the experience of the home by shifting the flow of information and thereby reify power structures. Results indicate that the implementation of smart technology can affect access to shared spaces, constrain interactions, and predefine practices thereby establishing hierarchies within the household. We turn the discussion towards ethical challenges concerning control, whose problems the smart home is concerned with, and how the smart home embeds itself in the household. We conclude with design considerations and future work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Making Waves, Combining Strengths
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-8096-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445058
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Virtual, Online, Yokohama, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021 https://chi2021.acm.org/

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	08/05/2021 → 13/05/2021
Internet address	https://chi2021.acm.org/

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Ehrenberg, N & Keinonen, T 2021, The Technology Is Enemy for Me at the Moment: How Smart Home Technologies Assert Control Beyond Intent. in CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths., 407, ACM, ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 08/05/2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445058

The Technology Is Enemy for Me at the Moment: How Smart Home Technologies Assert Control Beyond Intent. / Ehrenberg, Nils ; Keinonen, Turkka.

CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. ACM, 2021. 407.

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