End-User Composition Interfaces for Smart Environments: A Preliminary Study of Usability Factors

Dahl, Yngve; Svendsen, Reidar Martin

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21708-1_14

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“…As a result, the idea of giving an end user tools to program their environment, long discussed in the academic literature [2,3,5,10,13,18], is now becoming possible for a larger population. This programming often takes the form "if trigger, then action," which we term trigger-action programming.…”

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Practical trigger-action programming in the smart home

McManus

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We investigate the practicality of letting average users customize smart-home devices using trigger-action ("if, then") programming. We find trigger-action programming can express most desired behaviors submitted by participants in an online study. We identify a class of triggers requiring machine learning that has received little attention. We evaluate the uniqueness of the 67,169 trigger-action programs shared on IFTTT.com, finding that real users have written a large number of unique trigger-action interactions. Finally, we conduct a 226-participant usability test of trigger-action programming, finding that inexperienced users can quickly learn to create programs containing multiple triggers or actions.

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confidence: 98%

Practical trigger-action programming in the smart home

McManus

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Dahl and Svendsen carried out a preliminary comparison among three composition paradigms (filtered lists, wiring composition and jigsaw puzzle composition) for rule creation [9]. From it, filtered lists, where condition-action compositions are obtained by selecting conditions and actions from respective lists, resulted to be the most intuitive for readability; whilst, jigsaw puzzle composition was considered by participants the most playful and engaging type of interaction.…”

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“…The user is thus guided in setting up the "if" and "then" parts of a rule, by choosing them among lists (filtered-list metaphor), virtual puzzle pieces (jigsaw composition) or components to be put in a network (wired composition) [9]. This paper proposes a new interaction metaphor for rule creation aimed at supporting users to perform trigger-action programming in an "unwitting" manner, that is at helping them create antecedent and consequent parts of the rules, without requiring them to think in terms of "if-then" constructs like computer scientists naturally do.…”

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Smart Home Control through Unwitting Trigger-Action Programming

Fogli¹,

Peroni²,

Stefini³

2016

International Conferences on Distributed Multimedia Systems

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Abstract-This paper describes ImAtHome, an iOS application for smart home configuration and management. This application has been built over the framework HomeKit, made available in iOS, for communicating with and controlling home automation accessories. Attention has been put on the design of the interaction with such an application, in order to make the interaction style as much coherent as possible with iOS apps and supporting users without programming skills to unwittingly create event-conditionaction rules that, in other similar systems, are usually defined through "if-then" constructs. The results of a user test demonstrate that ImAtHome is easy to use and well accepted by end users of different age and background. Smart home; end-user develoment; rule-based programming

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“…For this reason, the idea of providing the users with a tool to express their needs, requirements and preferences has been discussed in several recent research works that deal with the improvement of buildings energy efficiency (e.g., [7][8] [9][10][11] [12]). However, energy efficiency is not the only factor in which users can be interested in: for instance, it could be possible to attract their attention (and thus their collaboration) by providing them with better services or by increasing their living and working comfort.…”

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On How to Design Smart Energy-Efficient Buildings

Sciuto¹,

Nacci²

2014

2014 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing

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Abstract-Smart spaces are environments such as apartments, offices, museums, hospitals, schools, malls, university campuses, and outdoor areas that are enabled for the cooperation of objects (e.g., sensors, devices, appliances) and systems that have the capability to self-organize themselves, based on given policies. Since they can be used for an efficient management of the energy consumption of buildings, there is a growing interest for them, both in academia and industry. Unfortunately, nowadays, these systems are still designed manually with ad-hoc solutions. As a consequence, a huge effort has to be spent for each new smart building. Within this context, aim of this work is to propose a methodology to automate the design process of such smart spaces. The paper presents an overview of the design flow implemented to support the design of scalable architectures for energy aware smart spaces.

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End-User Composition Interfaces for Smart Environments: A Preliminary Study of Usability Factors

Cited by 29 publications

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Practical trigger-action programming in the smart home

Practical trigger-action programming in the smart home

Smart Home Control through Unwitting Trigger-Action Programming

On How to Design Smart Energy-Efficient Buildings

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