Contributing to energy efficiency through a user-centered smart home
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description: Smart homes are residences equipped with information and communication technologies that anticipate and respond to the needs of the occupants. Despite the numerous research and industrial efforts, today only few expensive smart homes have been built and sold. The reason behind this slow uptake is the technology-driven approach characterizing existing solutions. The doctoral Thesis aims at demonstrating that a smart home can provide functionalities designed with a user-centered approach, taking into account ergonomic considerations about domestic activity and human cognition. This is achieved in collaboration with cognitive ergonomists, which help "minding the gap" between human context and machine-understandable context. Using off-the-shelf and lightweight instrumentation (also minimizing privacy concerns), extending existing context modeling, reasoning and management tools and following the Ubiquitous Computing principles, the doctoral work led to the following achievements: (i) the inter-disciplinary design of suitable functionalities, in collaboration with cognitive ergonomists; (ii) the design of a context-aware system that captures and reasons about uncertain contextual information in a distributed fashion; (ii) the realization of a working prototype that demonstrates the provision of energy-saving and comfort-preserving functionalities.
landing page: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00869455
identifier: NNT: 2013REN1S036
keyword: cognitive-ergonomics
keyword: conception-centree-sur-lutilisateur
keyword: domotique
keyword: economie-denergie
keyword: energy-saving
keyword: ergonomie-cognitive
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: infoinfo-ohcomputer-science-csother-csoh
keyword: informatique-omnipresente
keyword: smart-home
keyword: theses
keyword: ubiquitous-computing
keyword: user-centered-design
issued: 2026-05-09T12:05:21.072718
modified: 2026-05-09T12:05:21.072722
language: en
contact point: Organization
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