A considerable amount of research has been carried out towards enabling average users to
customize their smart homes through trigger-action (" if... then...") programming. However …

We investigate the practicality of letting average users customize smart-home devices using
trigger-action (" if, then") programming. We find trigger-action programming can express …

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has recently been relocated from an
external entity brought into the home, to an internal feature of the domestic environment …

Abstract The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has transformed everyday manual tasks into digital and
automatable ones, giving way to the birth of several end-user development solutions that …

ABSTRACT The use of Smart Homes has grown considerably in the past decade. Enabling
end-users to develop rules to program their homes and devices is very important to …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) and connected products have become part of the
advance of ubiquitous technology into personal and professional living spaces, such as the …

Currently a variety of smart home systems are available from different vendors, who made
different designs choices in how these systems operate, which in turn affect end users. A key …

Seeking to be sensitive to users, smart home researchers have focused on the concept of
control. They attempt to allow users to gain control over their lives by framing the problem as …

A crucial challenge to enabling multi-device home networked systems is providing a way for
non-expert consumers to combine, configure and control the available functions …

Ubiquitous environments, such as smart homes, are becoming more intelligent and
autonomous. As a result, their behavior becomes harder to grasp and unintended behavior …