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PlaceLab is a 1,000-square-foot, wired, high-tech apartment project in Cambridge, Mass., that housed its first occupants this summer, for 10-days as a part of experiment that monitors people’s daily habits such as exercise or their relation of temperature and humidity to allergies and dust mites. The reason behind experiment is to learn how technology and architectural design can influence life-extending changes in human behavior. They also hope to study how technological controls in homes will serve to improve health and save natural resources.
The director of the PlaceLab program House 'n Consortium at MIT, Kent Larson, says that it is hard to guess how people will behave around home technologies without being able to observe the interaction. He calls PlaceLab a "living laboratory". The residents of PlaceLab are able to come and go as they please. In further observations, researchers will pay attention to people’s sleeping, eating or socializing activities as well as their human-computer interaction.
There are a number of housing projects -- that some people refer to as "smart homes" – that are supposed to improve the quality of living with the use and adaptation of technology.
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