Bespoke appliances for the digital home

The arrival of the digital home brings both new opportunities and challenges for the systematic development, testing and iteration process for bringing meaningful products to a global market. In this paper we describe a method being used by Intel to address this complex issue; Consumer Experience Architecture (CEA). We discuss how the CEA may be applied to the introduction of radically new concept for future digital- home appliances called meta-appliances in which traditional appliance and applications are deconstructed in a way that consumers can reassemble them to create bespoke appliances for their digital homes.