Pons Tomás, P.; Catalá Bolós, A.; Jaén Martínez, FJ. (2015). Customizing smart environments: a tabletop approach. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. 7(4):511-533. doi:10.3233/AIS-150328
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Customizing smart environments: a tabletop approach
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Author:
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Pons Tomás, Patricia
Catalá Bolós, Alejandro
Jaén Martínez, Francisco Javier
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UPV Unit:
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Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación - Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació
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Abstract:
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Smart environments are becoming a reality in our society and the number of intelligent devices integrated in these spaces is in-creasing very rapidly. As the combination of intelligent elements will open a wide range of ...[+]
Smart environments are becoming a reality in our society and the number of intelligent devices integrated in these spaces is in-creasing very rapidly. As the combination of intelligent elements will open a wide range of new opportunities to make our lives easier, final users should be provided with a simplified method of handling complex intelligent features. Specifying behavior in these environments can be difficult for non-experts, so that more efforts should be directed towards easing the customization tasks. This work presents an entirely visual rule editor based on dataflow expressions for interactive tabletops which allows be-havior to be specified in smart environments. An experiment was carried out aimed at evaluating the usability of the editor in terms of non-programmers understanding of the abstractions and concepts involved in the rule model, ease of use of the pro-posed visual interface and the suitability of the interaction mechanisms implemented in the editing tool. The study revealed that users with no previous programming experience were able to master the proposed rule model and editing tool for specifying be-havior in the context of a smart home, even though some minor usability issues were detected.
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Subjects:
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Rules
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Behavior definition
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Event-based systems
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Customization
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Smart environment
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Interactive tabletop
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Visual language
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Copyrigths:
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Reserva de todos los derechos
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Source:
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Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. (issn:
1876-1364
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DOI:
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10.3233/AIS-150328
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Publisher:
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IOS Press
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Publisher version:
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/AIS-150328
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Project ID:
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Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation/ CreateWorlds/ TIN2010-20488
Conselleria d'Educacio, Cultura I Esport (Generalitat Valenciana)/ APOSTD/2013/013
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia/ "Beca de Excelencia" program
Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports/ FPU13/03831
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Thanks:
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We would like to thank all the volunteers that participated in the empirical study. Our thanks are also due to the ASIC/Polimedia team for their computer hardware support. This work was partially funded by the Spanish ...[+]
We would like to thank all the volunteers that participated in the empirical study. Our thanks are also due to the ASIC/Polimedia team for their computer hardware support. This work was partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the National R&D&I Program within the project CreateWorlds (TIN2010-20488). It also received support from a postdoctoral fellowship within the VALi+d Program of the Conselleria d'Educacio, Cultura I Esport (Generalitat Valenciana) awarded to Alejandro Catala (APOSTD/2013/013). The work of Patricia Pons has been supported by the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia under the "Beca de Excelencia" program, and currently by an FPU fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (FPU13/03831).
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Artículo
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