ImAtHome: Making trigger-action programming easy and fun

Fogli, Daniela; Peroni, Matteo; Stefini, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.08.003

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“…While IFTTT incorporates a graphical representation of their services and represents rules half textual and half graphically in the mobile interface, it does not offer switching between a textual and graphical representation and therefore does not fully comply to guideline G6. Similar cases are Atooma, HomeRules [35], ImAtHome [14] and Tasker. Since time is not represented graphically from left to right, and there is no grouping of concurrent actions, IFTTT does not fulfil guideline G5.…”

Section: Authoring Of Internet Of Things Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…yes (15) yes (19) yes (16) yes (10) no (15) no (11) no (14) no (20) UI (30-60 min). Each participant received a hardcopy of the elicitation scenario and questions, blank paper sheets, pens and pencils.…”

Section: Experimental Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…EPIDOSITE [25] HomeRules [36] ? iCAP [13] IFTTT ImAtHome [14] Keep Doing It [10] Puzzle [8] ? SmartFit [2] TARE [16] ?…”

Section: Use Of Symbols and Abstractmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since time is not represented graphically from left to right, and there is no grouping of concurrent actions, IFTTT does not fulfil guideline G5. While IFTTT supports rules with only one event and one action, solutions such as Atooma, AppsGate [6], EPIDOSITE [25], HomeRules [35], iCAP [13], ImAtHome [14], Keep Doing It [10], Puzzle [8], SmartFit [2], TARE [16], Tasker, Visit [1] and Zipato can deal with more complex rules. However, only a few [1,8,35] depict the sequence of an interaction (trigger/action) as described in guideline G5, grouping concurrent actions and showing sequential actions graphically from left to right.…”

Section: Authoring Of Internet Of Things Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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User-driven Design Guidelines for the Authoring of Cross-Device and Internet of Things Applications

Sanctorum

Kieffer

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2020

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

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Recently we see an increasing number of solutions for the authoring of cross-device and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. While most of these authoring tools have been realised based on existing metaphors and evaluated in subsequent user studies, there is no consensus on how to best enable end users to manage and interact with their devices, IoT objects and services. In order to establish some common guidelines for the development of cross-device and IoT authoring tools, we conducted an elicitation study exploring a user's mental model when defining cross-device interactions in IoT environments. Existing authoring solutions have further been checked for compliance with our guidelines and we developed a fully-compliant end-user authoring tool for cross-device and IoT applications. The presented guidelines may inform the design of new as well as the improvement of existing solutions and form a foundation for discussion, future studies and refinements within the HCI community. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → User studies; Interaction design; User interface programming.

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Section: Authoring Of Internet Of Things Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Experimental Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…EPIDOSITE [25] HomeRules [36] ? iCAP [13] IFTTT ImAtHome [14] Keep Doing It [10] Puzzle [8] ? SmartFit [2] TARE [16] ?…”

Section: Use Of Symbols and Abstractmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Authoring Of Internet Of Things Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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User-driven Design Guidelines for the Authoring of Cross-Device and Internet of Things Applications

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2020

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

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“…In the building design system based on visual interaction, (1) when constructing the intelligent environment, in order to realize the technical development on different platforms and different controls, the hardware of the intelligent building system will adopt different methods. For example, the 3D image synthesis method is introduced to apply the 3D display to the control interface of the intelligent building system, so as to enhance the authenticity, user friendliness, and visual comfort of the interface and enhance user interaction experience [10,11]. (2) In order to ensure the user-centered principle, users participate in building applications that can be configured and managed on the iOS platform, and evaluate their availability [12].…”

Section: The Visual Interactionmentioning

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A Review of Smart Design Based on Interactive Experience in Building Systems

Zhang

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Smart building is the result of the penetration of information technology and control technology into traditional buildings, and is the future development direction of buildings. User-centric building smart design can achieve a sustainable life, and smart technology integration based on smart design can support sustainable development and improve user satisfaction, happiness, and overall quality of life. In intelligent design, researchers focus on the “people-oriented” approach, designed to bring users the ultimate interactive experience. Based on the interactive experience principle of smart design in the smart building system, this article classifies and summarizes intelligent design from the “five senses” interaction, including visual interaction, voice interaction, tactile interaction, cognitive interaction, and emotional interaction. We analyze the application of smart design in architecture and discuss how to embody the principles of user-centered interactive experience design in the process of smart design. This article provides a comprehensive and systematic literature review, clarifies the importance of the “people-oriented” approach in the smart design of buildings, and summarizes how to improve the sustainability of intelligent buildings from the perspective of a “people-oriented” approach. This paper proposes future research suggestions and directions and promotes the sustainable development of the smart building.

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A Visual Tool for Analysing IoT Trigger/Action Programming

Corcella

Manca

Paternò

et al. 2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The Trigger-Action programming paradigm has been widely adopted in the last few years, especially in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain because it allows end users without programming experience to describe how their applications should react to the many events that can occur in such very dynamic contexts. Several end user development tools exist, in both the research and industrial fields, which aim to support the increasing need to specify such rules. Thus, it becomes important for application developers and domain experts to enrich such environments with functionalities able to monitor how users actually interact with such rule editors, and show useful information to analyse the end user activity. In this paper, we present a visual tool for monitoring and analysing how users interact with a trigger-action rule editor. The goal is to provide a tool useful to better understand what end users' personalization needs are, how they are expressed, how users actually specify rules, and whether users encounter any issues in interacting with the personalization features offered by the editors. The proposed solution supports the analysis through a dashboard and a set of timelines describing the actual use of the personalization tool, with the possibility to select specific events of interest. It moreover provides data useful for understanding the types of triggers, actions and rules actually composed by users, and whether they effectively exploit the personalization features offered.

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ImAtHome: Making trigger-action programming easy and fun

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

User-driven Design Guidelines for the Authoring of Cross-Device and Internet of Things Applications

User-driven Design Guidelines for the Authoring of Cross-Device and Internet of Things Applications

A Review of Smart Design Based on Interactive Experience in Building Systems

A Visual Tool for Analysing IoT Trigger/Action Programming

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