A First-Person Experience with End-User Development for Smart Homes

Coutaz, Joëlle; Crowley, James L.

doi:10.1109/mprv.2016.24

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“…In particular, End-User Development (EUD) methods [34] usually contribute to fostering the technical conditions for such participation. They are useful not only in traditional information systems [15] or spreadsheet-based applications [8], but also for tailoring personal devices [14,22] or smart environments [10,13]. Furthermore, it has been recently demonstrated [51] how workers can benefit from EUD also from the economic point of view.…”

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Fostering computational thinking through collaborative game-based learning

Turchi

Fogli

Malizia

2019

Multimed Tools Appl

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Algorithms are more and more pervading our everyday life: from automatic checkouts in supermarkets and e-banking to booking a flight online. Understanding an algorithmic solution to a problem is a very relevant activity to improve end-users' involvement. To this end, adopting a meta-design approach may help to support end-users to appropriate the design skills necessary for contributing to system design, in new and engaging modalities. By acquiring Computational Thinking (CT) skills (e.g., algorithmic thinking, abstraction), end-users will be able to understand and trust algorithms, while at the same time participate in the design and development of systems evolving in accordance with their needs. In this work, we focus on two different ways of improving CT skills: playfulness and collaboration. We introduce a game-based system, TAPASPlay, to foster CT skills and we report the results of an exploratory study with 18 users; our hypothesis is that learning CT through gameplay is effective and we tested it by involving participants in game sessions providing playful experience and collaborative learning. Keywords Computational thinking • Gameplay • Tangible user interface • Constructionist video games This is an extended and revised version of a paper that was presented at the 2017 Workshop on Games-Human Interaction [19]. This paper significantly expands over the presentation and experimental validation of TAPASPlay.

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Fostering computational thinking through collaborative game-based learning

Turchi

Fogli

Malizia

2019

Multimed Tools Appl

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“…According to [13], which reviews different projects in particular concerning mobile applications, a motivation is that "regular development cycles are too slow to meet the users' fast changing requirements". In [6], authors propose an EUD environment designed for home control as an alternative to artificial intelligence. Additionally, they report on their "lived-with" experiences with EUD at home.…”

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Ambient Intelligence Users in the Loop: Towards a Model-Driven Approach

Koussaifi

Trouilhet

Arcangeli

et al. 2018

Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations

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Ambient and mobile systems consist of networked devices and software components surrounding human users and providing services. From the services present in the environment, other services can be composed opportunistically and automatically by an intelligent system, then proposed to the user. The latter must not only to be aware of existing services but also be kept in the loop in order to both control actively the services and influence the automated decisions. This paper first explores the requirements for placing the user in the ambient intelligence loop. Then it describes our approach aimed at answering the requirements, which originality sets in the use of the model-driven engineering paradigm. It reports on the prototype that has been developed, and analyzes the current status of our work towards the different research questions that we have identified.

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“…Improving on IFTTT, AppsGate [18] introduces a textual DSL, which makes a clear distinction between states and events, and allows some limited compositions of tests in rules. AppsGate provides an end-user development environment dedicated to smart homes and it has been shown to cover simple rules for comfort-oriented automation.…”

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A Domain-Specific Approach to Unifying the Many Dimensions of Context-Aware Home Service Development

Volanschi¹,

Carteron²,

Consel

2018

2018 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence &Amp; Computing, Advanced &Amp; Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing &Amp; Commu

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Developing context-aware homes involves a range of stakeholders, addressing many dimensions such as service design and development, infrastructure deployment, and maintenance. Such a variety of dimensions often translate into heterogeneous, low-level, silo-based processing of sensor data to extract context information. This paper analyzes a range of existing data processing layers in the domain of aging in place to identify key concepts and operations specific to context-aware processing. Based on this analysis, we introduce a context-aware, domain-specific language and its software architecture, which allow to put in synergy the stakeholders of a context-aware home by providing them with a unified approach to designing and developing services. Our approach offers context aware-specific abstractions and notations, within a data-centric and data-driven paradigm. We have validated our approach by applying it to an assisted living platform for aging in place, deployed in the home of 129 users. In particular, we used our domain-specific language to reimplement 53 existing services, originating from the stakeholders of the assisted living platform. These services were deployed and successfully tested for their effectiveness in performing the specific tasks of the stakeholders, such as detection of daily activities, user risk situations, or sensor failures.

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A First-Person Experience with End-User Development for Smart Homes

Abstract: International audienceThe authors present their " lived-with " experience with an End-User Development (EUD) prototype deployed in their home and show how the results overlap and complement findings from more traditional approaches to the study of EUD for the home

Cited by 60 publications

References 16 publications

Fostering computational thinking through collaborative game-based learning

Fostering computational thinking through collaborative game-based learning

Ambient Intelligence Users in the Loop: Towards a Model-Driven Approach

A Domain-Specific Approach to Unifying the Many Dimensions of Context-Aware Home Service Development

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