People and planet friendly home

在过去的30年里，智能家居项目已经从最初使用技术提供便利和改善生活方式发展到目前解决环境可持续性的努力，这主要是基于行为改变。这项拟议的研究旨在开发一种既环保又能保持/提高居住者生活方式的家居解决方案：人与地球友好型家居。它专注于改变技术以实现可持续发展目标，而不是改变行为。我们认为，实现这一宏伟目标的关键在于通过多学科方法开发有利的混合技术。 这项研究的最初重点将集中在四个领域，其中UBC通过其跨学院计算，信息和认知系统研究所（ICICS）拥有相当多的专业知识。这些领域是与我们的工业联盟协商确定的，包括通信、能源管理、健康和保健以及家庭运营。我们的目标是开发一个以用户友好，负担得起，无需手动，新颖技术为特征的家庭。随着新技术的发展，对无缝过渡的要求（祖母友好）将成为这些技术规范的一部分。它们也将被转移到不同类型的住宅（房屋和公寓）和商业环境（办公室和零售）。这项研究补充了UBC的“校园作为一个生活实验室”的可持续发展倡议。它将为未来涉及其他学科的研究奠定基础，如建筑/景观设计学、土木工程、社会学、老年学等，扩大项目的范围。

Smart home projects have evolved over the past 30 years from initially employing technology to offer convenience and lifestyle enhancement to more current endeavors addressing environmental sustainability, which are mostly based on behavioral modification. This proposed research aims at developing a home solution that is both environmentally friendly and maintains/enhances occupant lifestyles: the People & Planet-Friendly Home. It is focused on changing technology to achieve sustainability goals, not changing behaviour. We believe that the key to realizing this ambitious goal lies in developing enabling hybrid technologies through a multidisciplinary approach. The initial thrust of this research will focus on four areas in which UBC has considerable expertise through its trans-faculty Institute for Computing, Information, and Cognitive Systems (ICICS). These areas have been identified in consultation with our industrial consortium and include communications, energy management, health and wellness, and home operations. The goal is to develop a home that will be characterized by user-friendly, affordable, no-manual-required, novel technologies. A requirement for seamless transition as new technologies evolve (grandmother-friendly) will be part of the specifications for these technologies. They will also be transferable to different types of dwelling (houses and apartments) and business environments (offices and retail). The proposed research complements UBC's "Campus As A Living Lab" sustainability initiative. It will lay the groundwork for future investigations involving additional disciplines, such as architecture/landscape architecture, civil engineering, sociology, gerontology, etc., to expand the scope of the project.