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Those designing smart energy systems must take gender into account.
Amazon says it’s the “new neighbourhood watch” but Ring may just be another technology that gives police too much data and lets neighbourhoods double down on their biases.
Forget Alexa – true artificial intelligence will be able to understand dementia patients’ needs and offer help accordingly.
Smart home technology promises to make our lives easier, but how much control do we want this tech to have over our lives? And do we really trust it?
There are mounting calls to dismember the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, but most people seem to have overlooked the biggest threat of all.
Many homes are already smart – but they’re about to get much smarter.
As the number of ‘internet of things’ devices expands rapidly, so do security vulnerabilities to homes, businesses, governments and the internet as as whole.
While networked entertainment systems, automated security, mood lights and voice-controlled thermostats make homes more secure and productive, they’re also just good fun.
The Achilles’ heel of law technologies: training. Only 10% of such initiatives are aimed at law students, so how should this issue be managed to win the AI race?
There are several reasons people might find smart devices equipped with an always-on microphone both attractive and unsettling.
Sound alerts on digital devices are often annoying, so we’ve tended to opt for silence. In future, that could hold us back.
Apple’s closed system may be its undoing in the smart home market.
Once you have the ability to speak to a digital assistant from any room in the house, the obvious next step is to make the house able to listen.
Can we use smart home data to better identify and report abusers, while protecting victims of domestic and family violence?
But don’t worry, it’s failing. For now.
Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant device is coming to the UK and bringing smart homes with it.
Our homes are getting smarter and more connected – but at what cost to energy use?
Smart home technologies have some major security weaknesses that better design and programming could solve.
Thousands of young people with disability who end up in nursing homes lead lives of isolation and boredom. Better and smarter housing finance and support options are at last being developed.
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Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor - Low / Net Zero Energy Buildings, University of Florida
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Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Senior Research Associate, DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Fellow, Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation, and Senior Lecturer, School of Private & Commercial Law, UNSW Sydney
