Our environment is becoming increasingly smarter. In our homes and vehicles, connected systems and their associated digital services assist and accompany us. This digital transformation of our environment is changing how we think about our living spaces, how we work, how we consume, and how we produce.

From a societal perspective, we are also undergoing a transformation. 20% of the French population is now over 65. By 2030, they will account for 30% of the population. Our family structures are changing: 30% of families are single-parent households. We are consuming differently, with online shopping increasing every year. New ways of working are emerging; the health crisis has notably accelerated the uptake of remote working. Today, we spend nearly 80 per cent of our time indoors. Our homes and their immediate surroundings must necessarily adapt to these new habits whilst addressing the challenges of climate change, which requires us to reduce our energy consumption.

The development of ambient digital services represents significant potential for innovation and economic growth, but it also poses technological challenges: knowing how to determine users' needs to offer them effective services, measuring their acceptability and impacts, ensuring the continuity of these ambient digital services, and adapting them to the different contexts that mobility induces.

The aim of the «User Experiences for Smart Life: Home & Mobility» Chair is to overcome the scientific barriers that may hinder the technological development of our intelligent environments. Its purpose is to test and study the acceptability and impact on users of new connected systems and associated digital services designed by partner companies.

The UX for Smart Life chair aims to create, develop and experiment with technologies and uses related to the home of tomorrow and its immediate environment.

• Study of home usage / mobility
• Development of technical solutions for an adaptive home/mobility
• Acceptability study of technologies and their impacts – creation of usage scenarios

The chair is supported by IMREDD's technological platform, «Lab Smart Life: Home & Mobility», an open and scalable digital architecture that connects three domains: smart home, vehicles, and infrastructure. The Living Lab offers the ability to create and modify user experience scenarios, validating both their social acceptability and economic viability.