Framing Smart Consumer Technology: Mediation, Materiality, and Material for Design

Networked, computational, and recently, intelligent materials are increasingly meshed within everyday life as smart technology. While the smart label has been applied to a wide variety of everyday artefacts (Staff, 2017; Kiritsis, 2011), an understanding of smart consumer technology itself has largely remained feature centric. For instance, Maass and Janzen (2007) identify smart technology in terms of three different kinds of adaptability: to situational contexts, to actors that interact with them, and to business constraints. Alternatively, Mühlhäuser (2007) defines smart technology as

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