Preface -- Part I: The Current State in Smartness -- Wise - The Difference Between Smart and Smart-Ass -- Why is it Called Human-Computer Interaction but focuses on Computing Instead -- The Different Meanings of Home -- Part II: The Wise Approach: Fromm Sweet, through to Smart and WISE -- A Focused Survey on Technology from Hypocaust to Smart Appliances -- The Theoretical Foundations of the Wise Home -- Empirical Foundations of WISE -- Part III: The WISE Home of the Future -- The Proof of the WISE Concept -- The WISE Future of Home Technology -- Epilogue.