Conference: “The Smart Home: Why and How?”

The first event of the 2019 “Thursday Lectures” series at the Montpellier Institute of Botany, 163 Rue Auguste Broussonnet, Montpellier.
Free admission.

This conference will be moderated by:

• Alain Foucaran, professor at the University of Montpellier, Director of the Institute of Electronics and Systems (IES), and co-initiator of the project;
• Anne-Sophie Cases, professor at the University of Montpellier (IAE – Institute of Business Administration). She oversees the “e-Marketing” and “Web Project Management” master’s programs;
• Malo Depincé, associate professor at the University of Montpellier and deputy director of the “Dynamiques du droit” laboratory. A specialist in consumer and competition law, he coordinates the HUT project.

Together, they will present the “HUmans at home projecT – HUT” initiative, which aims to explore and understand the factors that contribute to residents’ well-being in the smart homes of the future:

• What will our relationship with the homes of the future be like, and how will we live in the future?
• What will living conditions be like in the typical home of the future: a potentially urban apartment equipped with numerous sensors, actuators, and analytics systems?
• What is feasible, desirable, and acceptable in terms of contributing to well-being in the smart homes of the future?

HUT takes a multidisciplinary approach to addressing major scientific questions related to the housing of the future:

• What connected data will we share? How and why?
• How do we interact with smart homes?
• How can technology improve our living conditions?
• What legislative framework should guide the housing of the future?

HUT brings together scientists from 12 research laboratories and 8 innovative companies: researchers specializing in sensors, data, language, motion, commerce, and more. Architects, lawyers, historians, and psychologists have joined forces to understand and design the apartment of the future for the residents of the future, using an innovative experimental framework.

Read the related article “Human at Home: Toward a Human-Centered, Smart Living Environment”