Smart home appliances are difficult for the elderly. Is it to let the elderly adapt to home appliances or for home appliances?

In the final analysis, smart home appliances are designed to provide convenience for people. If the result is counterproductive, it is naturally home appliances that are wrong.

Rich in functions, but complicated in operation, it is said to be a smart home appliance, but it is not smart at all in actual use. This situation is not a case. For example, if you cook with a smart rice cooker, you can only cook raw rice, and finally you have to steam rice in a steamer; I changed the smart washing machine with remote control by mobile phone, but I couldn't even use it, so I had to pick up the washboard and wash it by hand. Does smart home appliances bring more convenience or trouble to life?

In fact, for smart home appliances, the greatest intelligence should be suitable for all ages, and there is no threshold for the age and education of users. For the elderly, the requirements for home appliances are very simple and don't need so many fancy functions. There are more than a dozen TV stations. The washing machine can wash clothes, and the rice cooker can cook meals to meet the basic functions. It is best to use it with one button, and the operation is simple and convenient. However, in China market, it is not easy to choose home appliances according to this standard. At present, smart home appliances have become the mainstream of the home appliance market, such as WiFi connection, mobile phone remote control, multi-function and so on. Moreover, the products are updated quickly, and the functions and usage methods are also updated in real time, making "too smart" not suitable for the elderly.

In fact, not only elderly users, but even young people do not have so much demand for the functions of smart home appliances. Intelligentization is certainly the future development trend, but the market should always take users as the center and take intelligent technology as a tool and way to meet the demand. For example, for the market segment of elderly users, innovative products that are simple to operate and meet basic needs are the main direction. Only by simplifying the use of the elderly can it become a "smart" and "intelligent" product.

Since the beginning of this year, with the rapid landing of artificial intelligence, if some users of smart home appliances are eliminated because they are "too smart", it is definitely a wrong industry development idea. It can be seen that on the road of intelligent development, enterprises may have launched many powerful and diverse products, but there is still a certain gap with the real market demand, which requires continuous exploration and innovation!