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Programming IoT-Spaces: A User-Survey on Home Automation Rules

Authors : Danny Soares, João Pedro Dias, André Restivo, Hugo Sereno Ferreira

Published in: Computational Science – ICCS 2021

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has transformed everyday manual tasks into digital and automatable ones, giving way to the birth of several end-user development solutions that attempt to ease the task of configuring and automating IoT systems without requiring prior technical knowledge. While some studies reflect on the automation rules that end-users choose to program into their spaces, they are limited by the number of devices and possible rules that the tool under study supports. There is a lack of systematic research on (1) the automation rules that users wish to configure on their homes, (2) the different ways users state their intents, and (3) the complexity of the rules themselves—without the limitations imposed by specific IoT devices systems and end-user development tools. This paper surveyed twenty participants about home automation rules given a standard house model and device’s list, without limiting their creativity and resulting automation complexity. We analyzed and systematized the collected 177 scenarios into seven different interaction categories, representing the most common smart home interactions.

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Title: Programming IoT-Spaces: A User-Survey on Home Automation Rules
Authors: Danny Soares
João Pedro Dias
André Restivo
Hugo Sereno Ferreira
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Computational Science – ICCS 2021
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-77969-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-77970-2

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77970-2_39

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