2. “…If I Had but the Time and You Had but the Brain…”: Computer-Centered Computing

Evolution of the smart home has, to a large extent, been driven by technological developments, frequently neglecting actual human needs and habits. To realize the vision of the Wise Home, a shift to a more human-centered approach is needed. In order to move to a more natural interaction, we must first accept that current interaction paradigms are unnatural. In nature, human communication is not based on a single modality, such as speech or gesture alone, but combines them as two separate but overlapping streams of communication.