Approaches to smart home with a focus on workspace in single household

  • Authors:
  • Hee Hwa Chae;Mi Jeong Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Housing and Interior Design, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;Department of Housing and Interior Design, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICOST'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Toward useful services for elderly and people with disabilities: smart homes and health telematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Single-person households have appeared recently as one of new distinct family types in Korea and lived mainly small scales of studio apartments and flats. However, we expect that normal large scale of houses or apartments will be inhibited by the residents of them in Korea. Accordingly the demands for their home would become dynamic like those of the other family types because their housings will not be temporary choices. The research proposes a direction for the development of smart homes in Korea, especially, for single households with a focus on their home workspace. Based on the results of a case study, a home workspace was identified as the highest need of the single households. Thus, this research emphasizes the effective functioning of home workspace and suggests intelligent components for it by introducing enabling technologies and notions to the development of the smart homes.