End-user-programmable smart-home toolkits have engendered excitement in recent years.
However, modern homes already cater quite well to users' needs, and genuinely new needs …

Adoption of commercial smart home devices is rapidly increasing, allowing in-situ research
in people's homes. As these technologies are deployed in shared spaces, we seek to …

Commercial home automation systems are becoming increasingly common, affording the
opportunity to study technology-augmented homes in real world contexts. In order to …

A considerable amount of research has been carried out towards making long-standing
smart home visions technically feasible. The technologically augmented homes made …

Visions of smart homes have long caught the attention of researchers and considerable
effort has been put toward enabling home automation. However, these technologies have …

Smart home technologies are beginning to become more widespread and common, even as
their deployment and implementation remain complex and spread across different …

Smart home systems are becoming an integral feature of the emerging home IT market.
Under this general term, products mainly address issues of security, energy savings and …

Do-it-yourself (DIY)-style smart home products enable users to create their own smart homes
by installing sensors and actuators. DIY smart home products are a potential solution to …

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 …

With a plethora of off-the-shelf smart home devices available commercially, people are
increasingly taking a do-it-yourself approach to configuring their smart homes. While this …