One day in the future, perhaps we can be like the interaction between Iron Man and JARVIS in the movie – a short command, a ringing voice, a wave of hands, and easy to open a smart life.

The JARVIS in the film is actually the abbreviation of Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.

The mention of intelligent systems is inseparable from the numerous opportunities created by the Internet of Things (IoT) IoT technology. At the moment, home space is the most frequently used scene for IoT applications.

According to Cisco's forecast, by 2021, connected homes will account for 46% of M2M (Machine to Machine), nearly half.

However, the concept of smart home does not have a definition. This is an emerging field in which the Internet has gradually developed into the Internet of Things and gradually began to apply technology to home life. There is still much room for improvement in user experience.

1. The smart home appliance market to be integrated

A few years ago, when the concept of smart home was just emerging, major electrical manufacturers quickly began to "smart" the product.

For example, make an APP for a networked TV, replacing the traditional remote control; make an app for the rice cooker, so that you can remotely control when you get off work, and you can eat hot rice when you get home. Seemingly beautiful, the reality is that the major electrical appliance manufacturers are each battalion, putting all kinds of smart home terminal products into the market in the form of fragmentation, which is scattered in different brands of interactive operation forms, and its upgrading experience can not even offset the products. Inconvenience caused by integration.

When we have more and more smart devices, do you still want to download a lot of mobile apps and switch back and forth?

The comprehensive construction of smart homes should be to let all the smart home appliances be linked together and integrated into a complete and cooperative operation, and the connected equipment system.

2. From screen control to voice commands

Interactive integration is an inevitable trend of smart home integration, although in the domestic market, most smart products require users to click through the screen of the mobile phone. But in the long run, voice control will be the most common form of interaction.

Of course, voice control is not the only way users interact. In some usage scenarios, it is not appropriate to give orders directly to the air, especially for many parents who need to take care of their baby, they do not want their children to be woken up.

But the advantages of voice control are still very obvious.

Voice commands allow the user to control the smart device when both hands are occupied.

More importantly, this type of interaction is very natural, easy to learn, and able to cover people of all ages.

For example, children who are unable to perform many physical controls due to their high height, elderly people who are inconvenient to move, etc. At the same time, the form of voice interaction is closer to the communication mode between people, and it also makes users feel more cordial.

Since large technology companies such as Amazon, Google, and Apple started to develop voice assistants and smart speakers earlier, compared with Chinese users, European and American users are now more comfortable with voice-controlled interaction.

3. Focus on user needs

One of the main goals of smart homes is to increase people's comfort through automation.

However, blind pursuit of all the family labor, as if to train the user into a late-stage cancer patient. Is this really what users expect?

From the perspective of the pyramidal demand hierarchy of the famous psychologist Maslow, the highest pursuit of people is self-realization.

In a sense, this reflects people's pursuit of self-worth, which is no exception in product design that considers user psychology.

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