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Smart Homes as Product-Service Systems: Two Focal Areas for Developing Competitive Smart Home Appliances

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  • Sojung Kim

    (School of Creative Design Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea;)

  • Henri Christiaans

    (School of Creative Design Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea;)

  • Joon Sang Baek

    (College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea)

Abstract

Smart homes are a strong match for the characteristics of product-service systems (PSSs), but practitioners lack the knowledge necessary to approach their designs from a systemic perspective. Positing that smart home appliances (SHAs) are the building blocks of smart homes as competitive PSSs, we investigate the attributes of SHAs as design elements and the advantages of PSSs as design goals. Based on systematic literature reviews and interviews with SHA experts in South Korea, we propose a revised set of SHA attributes and discuss the two focal areas for developing competitive PSSs with SHAs: smartness for personalized user experiences and smartness for expanded cooperation. This paper contributes to the fast-changing smart home industry by capturing the attributes that define today’s SHAs, demonstrating that these attributes can contribute to the development of smart homes as a competitive PSS, and identifying areas of focus for those who develop SHAs and systems.

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  • Sojung Kim & Henri Christiaans & Joon Sang Baek, 2019. "Smart Homes as Product-Service Systems: Two Focal Areas for Developing Competitive Smart Home Appliances," Service Science, INFORMS, vol. 11(4), pages 292-310, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:orserv:v:11:y:2019:i:4:p:292-310
    DOI: 10.1287/serv.2019.0248
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