Natural Notation for the Domestic Internet of Things

Perera, Charith; Aghaee, Saeed; Blackwell, Alan F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18425-8_3

Cited by 9 publications

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“…This information was used for providing the overview of participants' backgrounds in Table 2. The table also contains a categorization of how often the participants did programming in their daily life at the time of the prototyping workshop (similar to [21]). This is based on short meetings we had with each participant prior to the prototyping workshop in order to group them based on programming experience (both frequency and kind of experience, e.g., web development vs. hardware).…”

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Lessons Learned from Using Reprogrammable Prototypes with End-User Developers

Borowski

Larsen-Ledet

2021

End-User Development

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Involving end-users in the development of a product before it is deployed has great potential to increase the fit between a product and individual users' needs. While end-users can be directly involved in modifying low-fidelity prototypes, they are left out when it comes to high-fidelity interactive prototypes -in part because these cannot be modified directly or require time-consuming edit-compile-run cycles. High-fidelity prototypes, however, are more engaging for users. We created a reprogrammable high-fidelity prototype and explored its use in shortterm prototyping workshops with end-user developers, i.e. end-users with programming experience, in the domain of collaborative writing. We report observations and pitfalls, and distill four lessons learned into guidelines on how to use reprogrammable high-fidelity prototypes with end-users in contexts with limited resources. Our experiences demonstrate, among other things, that reprogrammable high-fidelity prototypes are difficult to work with -even for experienced programmers -and emphasize the need for careful attention to guiding participants, time for familiarization, and catering to multiple levels of programming experience.

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Lessons Learned from Using Reprogrammable Prototypes with End-User Developers

Borowski

Larsen-Ledet

2021

End-User Development

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“…As such, building on the above work, we might imagine ways in which online environments carefully guide those who have a bot idea to express their ideas in a more organized way. Critically, drawing on recent work on end-user toolkits [41], it would be important to guide users with natural language and notation to reflect on both the idea being proposed and the contextual and interpretative limitations of bots. For example, we might imagine a bot requester wishing to create a "humorous" bot being prompted with: "As a bot I can't understand jokes, but I can tell you one".…”

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"Could You Define That in Bot Terms"?

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Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Bots are estimated to account for well over half of all web traffic, yet they remain an understudied topic in HCI. In this paper we present the findings of an analysis of 2284 submissions across three discussion groups dedicated to the request, creation and discussion of bots on Reddit. We set out to examine the qualities and functionalities of bots and the practical and social challenges surrounding their creation and use. Our findings highlight the prevalence of misunderstandings around the capabilities of bots, misalignments in discourse between novices who request and more expert members who create them, and the prevalence of requests that are deemed to be inappropriate for the Reddit community. In discussing our findings, we suggest future directions for the design and development of tools that support more carefully guided and reflective approaches to bot development for novices, and tools to support exploring the consequences of contextuallyinappropriate bot ideas.

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“…Also, useful improvements to programs are sometimes put off for later when attention costs feel too high. 15 For this situation, we would like to control and program AppsGate "as we are"-that is, from where we are and without being forced to use a machine. We believe that multimodal interaction that includes spoken language will increasingly provide a desirable component for the smart home, or that the system be able to "guess our intention" and take over the programming task.…”

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