Are you thinking what I’m thinking? The role of professionals’ imaginaries in the development of smart home technologies

IF 3 3区管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Futures Pub Date : 2024-08-17 DOI:10.1016/j.futures.2024.103458

Vinícius Juliani Pereira, Tom Hargreaves

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Abstract

This article draws on a co-design workshop with professionals working in the field of smart energy in the UK, to explore their imaginaries of smart homes and how these are (in)formed by their everyday ‘lay’ experiences. Smart home technologies (SHTs) are fundamentally embedded in future visions of energy transitions as they are expected to support actions to tackle climate change. Nevertheless, literature and adoption rates reveal an apparent gap between householders’ needs, expectations, and uses of SHTs, and how professional designers and developers view the same technology. Previous studies on SHTs imaginaries coming from industry and experts have focused on how users are represented in institutional visions, however, they routinely neglect the individual subjectivities of professionals producing such representations. The article presents three core results on the role of SHTs in digital energy futures: (1) it generates visual and textual conceptualizations of professionals’ imaginaries around smart domestic environments; (2) it identifies empirical insights on the formative role of professionals’ personal imaginaries for smart energy transitions; and (3) it calls for an alternative and more reflexive co-design practice to envision a fairer and more inclusive energy future.

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你和我想的一样吗？专业人士的想象力在智能家居技术发展中的作用

本文通过与英国智能能源领域专业人士的共同设计研讨会，探讨他们对智能家居的想象，以及这些想象是如何通过他们的日常 "非专业 "经验形成的。智能家居技术（SHTs）从根本上融入了未来能源转型的愿景，因为它们有望支持应对气候变化的行动。然而，文献和采用率显示，家庭用户对智能家居技术的需求、期望和使用，与专业设计师和开发人员对相同技术的看法之间存在明显差距。以往对来自行业和专家的自助式房屋技术想象的研究主要集中在用户如何在机构愿景中得到体现，然而，这些研究通常会忽视专业人员在创造这些表述时的个人主观性。本文介绍了有关 SHT 在数字能源未来中的作用的三项核心成果：(1) 文章对专业人员围绕智能家居环境的想象进行了视觉和文字概念化；(2) 文章就专业人员的个人想象对智能能源转型的形成性作用提出了经验性见解；(3) 文章呼吁采取另一种更具反思性的共同设计实践，以设想一个更加公平、更具包容性的能源未来。

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Futures Multiple-

CiteScore

6.00

自引率

10.00%

发文量

124

期刊介绍： Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures