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End Users Programming Smart Homes – A Case Study on Scenario Programming

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Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data (HCI-KDD 2013)

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Abstract

Smart technology for the private home holds promising solutions, specifically in the context of population overaging. The widespread usage of smart home technology will have influences on computing para- digms, such as an increased need for end user programming which will be accompanied by new usability challenges. This paper describes the evaluation of smart home scenarios and their relation to end user programming. Based on related work a two-phase empirical evaluation is performed within which the concept of scenarios in the private home is evaluated. On the basis of this evaluation a prototype which enables the simulation of end user programming tasks was developed and evaluated in comparison to two commercial products. The results show that, compared to the commercial products, our approach has both, some advantages as well as drawbacks which will be taken into consideration in further development planned for the future.

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  1. Institute of Informatics-Systems, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstrasse 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Gerhard Leitner & Anton J. Fercher

  2. Institute for Psychology, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstrasse 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Christian Lassen

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Leitner, G., Fercher, A.J., Lassen, C. (2013). End Users Programming Smart Homes – A Case Study on Scenario Programming. In: Holzinger, A., Pasi, G. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data. HCI-KDD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7947. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39146-0_20

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