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Virtual Assistants for End-User Development in the Internet of Things

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2019)

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The spread of Virtual Assistants (software and hardware) on the consumer market deeply changed the way Internet of Things (IoT) is implemented and used today. Such devices, and related applications, are becoming more and more integrated within smart environments and this might pave the way to potential new approaches to End-User Development activities, which can be performed in IoT environments. This paper discusses the evolution of the IoT ecosystem definition that has been studied by the authors in the last years.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Barbara Rita Barricelli, Elena Casiraghi & Stefano Valtolina

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  1. University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

    Alessio Malizia

  2. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Valtolina

  3. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Anders Morch

  4. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

    Alan Serrano

  5. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Andrew Stratton

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Barricelli, B.R., Casiraghi, E., Valtolina, S. (2019). Virtual Assistants for End-User Development in the Internet of Things. In: Malizia, A., Valtolina, S., Morch, A., Serrano, A., Stratton, A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11553. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_17

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