Supervisors: Marco Hubert & Lars Frederiksen
Discussants: Sascha Steinmann & Michela Beretta

Abstract
The evolution of smart home technologies such as virtual conversational agents (VCA) impacts all types of human-object relationships, use patterns, and adoption processes that happen in the smart home ecosystem. In my presentation I am going to talk about three papers that make up my PhD thesis.

In the first paper, I am going to probe not only the differences that a smart technology makes to the prevalent technology adoption models, but also the post-adoption behavior of consumers in the context. I will discuss the correlation between the consumers’ purchase intention for next smart devices - and the type and depth of their current relationships with smart devices.

In a second and third paper, I investigate the human-object relationships in a smart home context, by focusing more on virtual conversational agents (VCAs) and the experience they create for their owners. In the second paper, I capture the experience from text the consumers generate in Social Media about their experiences. Besides proposing a novel topic model that works better on short texts, the paper discovers the areas of experiences – functionality areas, and how these areas are connected to each other.

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