Augmenting objects at home through programmable sensor tokens: A design journey

Bellucci, Andrea; Vianello, Andrea; Florack, Yves; Micallef, Luana

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.09.002

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“…Moreover, however simple it may appear, triggeraction programming is not immediately understandable to all nonexperts [11,20,30]. To tackle this issue, developers are developing various interactive programming interfaces [6,15,20].…”

Section: How Smart-home Toolkits Support Appropriation By Usersmentioning

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“…Mennicken and Huang's [45] survey reveals that most studies of toolkits' uses have been based on ideation workshops. For example, a workshop-based project by Brich et al [12] identifed end-user programming uses that aford convenient living (e.g., automating devices for morning and returning-home routines), energy savings, and security, while a more detail-level study by Bellucci et al [6] pinpointed 11 possible use areas: comfort, safety, parenting, resource conservation, health and ftness, home maintenance, reminders about objects, entertainment, security, cooking, and education. Other ideation reports present uses related to emotional and personal value [8] and to intimacy [7].…”

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“…To conduct the feld studies in the domestic environment, we designed a smart-home IoT toolkit, proceeding from the fndings from the above-mentioned feature-elicitation studies [4][5][6]12] and pursuing open-endedness in our design. We equipped the toolkit with a wide range of typical trigger-action channels to cater for ordinary automated services that could simplify living, notify or remind of important events, and serve both utilitarian and hedonic needs.…”

Section: Smart Home Toolkitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The proliferation of several developments -Internet of Things (IoT) advances, the do-it-yourself (DIY) and maker movement, awakening to the need for a low-energy lifestyle, and general digitalisation of day-to-day life -have made smart homes a focus of considerable commercial and academic interest [14,33,38,45]. Home appliances can now be controlled via voice-based personal assistants [1], room temperatures can be adapted to users' preferences automatically [31], and Arduino [2] and Raspberry Pi [23] systems ofer makerminded people open-ended platforms for their own automation designs, with connectability to many IoT devices either directly or via IFTTT [36] or other interfaces [6,18].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Programmable Smart Home Toolkits Should Better Address Households’ Social Needs

Salovaara

Bellucci

Vianello

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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End-user-programmable smart-home toolkits have engendered excitement in recent years. However, modern homes already cater quite well to users' needs, and genuinely new needs for smart-home automation seldom arise. Acknowledging this challenging starting point, we conducted a six-week in-the-wild study of smart-home toolkits with four carefully recruited technology-savvy families. Interleaved with free toolkit use in the home were several creativity workshops to facilitate ideation and programming. We evaluated use experiences at the end of the six weeks. Even with extensive facilitation, families faced difculties in identifying needs for smarthome automation, except for social needs that emerged in all the families. We present analysis of those needs and discuss how enduser-programmable toolkits could better engage with both those household members who design new automated functions and those who merely 'use' them. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing.

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Programmable Smart Home Toolkits Should Better Address Households’ Social Needs

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Vianello

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Finally, a very recent narrative review of EUD-inspired software applied to domains such as smart homes, industrial and humanoid Robotics, task automation, and applications for human assistance is presented in [36] . However, the review proposed in [36] mainly focuses the analysis and proposed challenges to IoTspecific approaches and rule-based systems, such as those based on the trigger-action paradigm [37] . In fact, most literature reviews on EUD tend to omit in their analysis the more recent tools, technologies, and approaches used in Robotics aimed at enabling the development of more advanced, reactive and robust robot systems.…”

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Visual Programming Environments for End-User Development of intelligent and social robots, a systematic review

Coronado

Mastrogiovanni

Indurkhya

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Journal of Computer Languages

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Robots are becoming interactive and robust enough to be adopted outside laboratories and in industrial scenarios as well as interacting with humans in social activities. However, the design of engaging robotbased applications requires the availability of usable, flexible and accessible development frameworks, which can be adopted and mastered by researchers and practitioners in social sciences and adult end users as a whole. This paper surveys Visual Programming Environments aimed at enabling a paradigm fostering the so-called End-User Development of applications involving robots with social capabilities. The focus of this article is on those Visual Programming Environments that are designed to support social research goals as well as to cater for professional needs of people not trained in more traditional text-based computer programming languages. This survey excludes interfaces aimed at supporting expert programmers, at allowing industrial robots to perform typical industrial tasks (such as pick and place operations), and at teaching children how to code. After having performed a systematic search, sixteen programming environments have been included in this survey. Our goal is two-fold: first, to present these software tools with their technical features and Authoring Artificial Intelligence modeling approaches, and second, to present open challenges in the development of Visual Programming Environments for end users and social researchers, which can be informative and valuable to the community. The results show that the most recent such tools are adopting distributed and Component-Based Software Engineering approaches and web technologies. However, few of them have been designed to enable the independence of end users from high-tech scribes. Moreover, findings indicate the need for (i) more objective and comparative evaluations, as well as usability and user experience studies with real end users; and (ii) validations of these tools for designing applications aimed at working "in-the-wild" rather than only in laboratories and structured settings.

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