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Imagine in the future: <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYour wrist phone chimes with a message from your spouse.\u00a0 Her business trip to <\/em>review the Sahara forest project will finish early and she ought to make the noon <\/em>hypersonic shuttle and be home by teatime. Maybe you can still make the premiere of <\/em>that new zero-G dance show tonight. Time to leave. You signal the table to resorb the scant remains of your nutritionally balanced breakfast. The kids couldn\u2019t wait. They are already in the media room for the day\u2019s first lesson \u2013 their artificially intelligent tutor-cum-playmate is conducting a virtual reality tour of the first Olympic Games, reconstructed from the latest time <\/em>probe results.\u201d <\/em>(Turney, p.6, 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n Our homes are embracing technological innovations at speed we may not have imagined ten years ago.\u00a0 Turney (2013) imagined a home where technology has seeped into all aspects of our daily lives: information, communication, education, entertainment, leisure, transportation, and infrastructure.\u00a0 Smart home technologies are making this vision a reality.\u00a0 In this joint blog post, we explore some innovations that are enabling home automation; we provide some resources that exist for setting up and use of each smart home technology; and finally, we explore the implications of the abundant content and resources available.<\/span><\/p>\n Through several meetings and asynchronous research efforts, we have uncovered three cutting edge smart home technologies and some resources that will allow homeowners to learn how to use these innovations.<\/span><\/p>\n 1. The Philips Hue Home Lighting System<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Control both intensity of light — dimming or brightening on-command — and the color of lights. It can create a personalized experience by using special color-coordinated moods (i.e. choose the \u201cenergize\u201d theme on the Hue app for a specific room or sync it with music). Also, by using color-coordinated alarms (i.e. wake up every morning to a bright pink bedroom). <\/em>Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box. Sync color smart lights to your TV shows, movies, and games https:\/\/www2.meethue.com\/en-us<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Three gadgets of Philips Hue Home Lighting System: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Benefits:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Use of Philips Hue:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Compatible Devices: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n With an Amazon Alexa or Google Home device, you can use simple voice commands such as, ‘Alexa, dim the lights’, or,’ ‘Hey Google, turn on the table lamp’, to control your lights. Compatible devices include: Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation, Amazon Echo Plus, Amazon Echo Show 5, Google Home Mini and Google Home Hub<\/span><\/p>\n 2. EcoBee4 Thermostat<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Ecobee4 allows to control air temperature with voice commands, it also works as its own Amazon speaker, so it can do everything your Alexa or Assistant can do, including play music, shop, and control other devices. https:\/\/www.ecobee.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Use of EcoBee4 Thermostat:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Benefits:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n How to start using EcoBee4 Thermostat:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Compatible Devices: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Ecobee4 integrates seamlessly with apps and other home ecosystems like Alexa or Apple Home Kit.<\/span><\/p>\n 3. Portal from Facebook <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Portal from Facebook allows video conferencing, listening to music, checking the front door, displaying photos, sharing stories using augmented reality effects, playing games, surfing the web, and accessing popular apps. https:\/\/portal.facebook.com\/ca\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Use of Portal:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Benefits:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n How to start using Portal:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Compatible Devices: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Portal integrates seamlessly with several apps including, words with friends, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Facebook Watch and CNN, and connects with smart devices for use on the go, is compatible with WhatsApp and messenger.<\/span><\/p>\n Incorporating these technological innovations into our homes to make them \u201csmart\u201d can be exciting, and it is fun to imagine the future possibilities that these innovations can generate.\u00a0 The content available currently surrounding smart home technologies is vastly abundant, but consideration needs to be given to the number of innovations that are emerging, and the speed of their arrival. Weller (2011) postulated the impact of having an abundance of learning content and resources and examined how in our digital, networked age, the scale of the content we have access to is on a different level.\u00a0 In smart home technologies, the user is the generally self-taught, and installs, sets up, and operates the technology with remote support, instruction, and troubleshooting being supplied by the company designing the tech.\u00a0 As home automation continues to grow, so does the amount of content that will be available concerning these innovations, and this abundance may need more educational considerations then the smart technologies themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n References<\/span><\/p>\n Turney, J. (2013). Imagining technology (Working Paper No. 13\/5). Retrieved from https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/academia.edu.documents\/38117114\/Imagining_Technology_FINAL.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DImagining_Technology_-_NESTA_Working_pap.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20190926%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190926T170742Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=cc008523c49110b5d407d31095c7eb7c7753dedc16bd8f35e128baf9aba22c9f<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Weller, Martin (2011). A pedagogy of abundance. 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