Talk given at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on June 19th 2018.

1. Smarter Homes
How technology has changed your home life
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
@iotwatch
alex@designswarm.com

2. First UK distributor of the
Arduino
arduino.cc

3. International clients
designswarm.com/services

4. Founder of the
Good Night Lamp™
goodnightlamp.com

5. Co-designed
tools to brainstorm
#iot products.
know-cards.com

6. Curating #iotlondon since 2011.
The 2nd largest meetup in the world
on #iot.
iot.london
meetup.com/iotlondon

7. Steering a community-based
open approach to #iot certification
iotmark.org

8. Wrote a book.
On pre-order now.
designswarm.com/book

9. The book addresses 3 concepts:
1. The home is used as a trampoline.
2. The way we live influences technological development.
3. Arguments we use to sell technology into the home.

10. The home as a trampoline.
Size of average American home in sq feet based on M.K.Mason (2017)

11. One room family homes or
‘shotgun’ homes for
working class families.
Eating was kept to a minimum
to focus on heating.

12. Animals were taken
from the countryside to the cities.
Pigs & chicken were kept.

13. In the countryside, outhouses &
laundry was communal.
Helping the spread of cholera.

14. The politics of the home.
Public Health Act 1866 makes drainage & refuse collection a government
obligation.
Animals can’t be kept anymore.
Bathrooms have to move indoors and be managed privately.

15. The telephone (1871).
Antonio Meucci

16. Cragside, 1880
The home of Louis Armstrong
with Joseph Swann lightbulbs.

17. NewYork City, 1881
The home of J. P. Morgan with Edison
lightbulbs.

18. NewYork City, 1882
The home of Edward H. Johnson
with Edison Christmas lights.

19. Washington D.C. 1894
The White House with Edison
lightbulbs.

20. The home becomes a laboratory.

21. Eliza Acton,1845
A woman must understand
the science of cooking
and keep up with science.

22. Baron Leibig,1848
The science of food is
essential for good health.

23. The Principles of Scientific
Management, 1911
are applied to the kitchen.
Frederick WinslowTaylor

24. The labour-saving home.
Charles & Mary Barnard run a ‘Housekeeping Experiment Home’
in Darien, CT and publish pamphlets.
Frank & Mary Pattinson open a State Housekeeping Experimental Station
in 1910 in Solonia, New Jersey.
Christine Frederick writesThe New Housekeeping; effeciency studies
In home management in 1912.
Georgie Child & George Boynton write ‘The Efficient kitchen, definite directions
For the planning, arranging and equipping of the modern labour-saving
Kitchen’ in 1914.

25. Irons
The first successful use of electricity in
appliances.

26. Radio sets (1927).

27. Repairs were made in the
cycle shops.

28. The Electrical Age (1926-78).
Electrical Association for Women.

31. Showcase home (1935).

32. Home Electrical (1915).
General Electric Film.

33. E-1027(1929).
Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici

34. Ronald Regan (1953).
General ElectricTheatre.

35. Mon Oncle (1958).
JacquesTati film.

36. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
Kitchen Scene.

37. The Jetsons (1972).
Cartoons.

38. ECHO IV (1966)
First home computer by
James Sutherland.

39. Tomorrow’s World (1967)
Rex Malik’s first EU
home computer.

40. Smart House project (1987)
Collaborative industry
project.

41. The book addresses 3 concepts:
1. The home is used as a trampoline.
2. The way we live influences technological development.
3. Arguments we use to sell technology into the home.

42. Thanks!
On pre-order now.
designswarm.com/book