Providing an Integrated User Experience of Networked Media, Devices, and Services through End-User Composition

Newman, Mark; Elliott, Ame; Smith, Trevor F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-79576-6_13

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“…Other visual prototyping tools like the rule-based language OSCAR [7] and Jigsaw [2], target domestic spaces and propose an approach to discovering, connecting and controlling services and devices. However, they offer limited expressiveness to access the functionalities of entities.…”

Section: Visual Paradigms For Programming Home Automation Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

Drey

Consel

2012

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Home automation environments are dedicated to helping users in their everyday life and are being deployed in an increasing number of areas, including home security, energy consumption, and assisted living. The range of situations to be addressed makes the development of home automation applications challenging: it requires to manage heterogeneous entities with a wide variety of functionalities. Moreover, since this area covers a large spectrum of user needs, it is crucial to ease the development and the evolution of these applications. This paper presents Pantagruel, an expressive and accessible approach to integrating a taxonomical description of a home automation environment into a visual programming language. A taxonomy describes the relevant entities of a given home automation area and serves as a parameter to a sensor-controller-actuator development paradigm. The orchestration of area-specific entities is supported by high-level constructs, customized with respect to taxonomical information.We have implemented a visual environment that integrates a taxonomical approach in the development of orchestration rules. Furthermore, we have developed a compiler for Pantagruel and successfully used it to test applications in various areas related to orchestration development for the domain of home automation. Finally, we have successfully evaluated the usability of Pantagruel through a user study performed with eighteen novice programmers.

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Section: Visual Paradigms For Programming Home Automation Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These approaches provide a domain-specific vocabulary (e.g., iCAP [3]) or use a metaphor-based representation (e.g., CAMP [1]). To assess their approaches, researchers conducted user studies [3,1,7,4].…”

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Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

Drey

Consel

2012

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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“…Manual composition assumes support both at the time of application instantiation and runtime, so that users can adapt the composed applications as they need. The majority of existing solutions in this group focus on application composition in the home network domain [14,22,40,41,47]. Manual application composition in the museum domain has been suggested by Ghiani et al [20].…”

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iCompose: context-aware physical user interface for application composition

Davidyuk

Gilman

Milara

et al. 2011

Open Computer Science

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Ubiquitous computing environments advocate creating applications by plugging together various resources (mobile devices, displays, augmented everyday objects, and so on) and Web Services to support the user's everyday activities and needs. This approach is referred to as application composition, and such applications are called composite. Due to the dynamic nature of ubiquitous environments, application composition has to be supported at runtime, so that the applications are able to adapt to the situation within the environment and other contexts. Application composition is usually performed by autonomous context-aware mechanisms that provide limited or no control for users. Still, users need to be aware of their environments and be able to control and configure applications when they are composed and executed. Towards this goal we present in this article a context-aware application composition system based on the iCompose interface for composing and controlling applications at runtime. Users compose applications by simply touching the resources in the environment with their mobile devices, while the iCompose interface provides feedback and assists users by suggesting them possible further actions. The interface relies on a rule-based reasoner and utilizes various context sources to support users dynamically, according to the situation in which they compose applications. We present a complete implementation of the system and report the results of a user evaluation study conducted with 21 participants. This study assesses the issues of control, usability, feasibility and user acceptance of the iCompose interface for context-aware application composition and the prototype as a whole.Keywords: ubiquitous computing • interaction design • physical user interface design • application composition © Versita Sp. z o.o.

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“…A home system should allow the user to manage and interconnect home devices as required. Work carried out by Newman et al [4] demonstrates such a system, but it is limited to media devices within the home.…”

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A Component Framework for Telecare and Home Automation

Maternaghan

Turner

2010

2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

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-Many sensors, appliances and smart devices for within the home are becoming readily available to the general public. These can not only enhance everyday living but also allow people requiring care to stay in the comfort of their own homes for longer. Users need to be provided with the ability to easily customise their home and the devices within it. A Service Component Architecture is described for representing various services within a home environment. The resulting system has a simple plug-and-play mechanism for easy addition and integration of a range of components. A collection of services is presented using both off-the-shelf and novel components.

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Providing an Integrated User Experience of Networked Media, Devices, and Services through End-User Composition

Cited by 55 publications

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Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

iCompose: context-aware physical user interface for application composition

A Component Framework for Telecare and Home Automation

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