Research on the Internet of Things (IoT) has devoted many efforts to technological aspects.
Little social and practical benefits have emerged so far. IoT devices, so-called smart objects …

Home automation faces the challenge of providing ubiquitous, unobtrusive services while
empowering users with approachable configuration interfaces. These interfaces need to …

Our life is characterized by the presence of a multitude of interactive devices and smart
objects exploited for disparate goals in different contexts of use. Thus, it is impossible for …

This paper describes a 63-participant user study that compares two widely known systems
supporting end users in creating trigger-action rules for the Internet of Things and Ambient …

The growing availability of smart objects is stimulating researchers to investigate the Internet
of Things (IoT) phenomenon from different perspectives. The potential of this technology is …

Smart artifacts promise to enhance the relationships among participants in distributed
working groups, maintaining personal mobility while offering opportunities for the …

End users need tools to enable them to control and personalise Internet of Things (IoT)
applications, which may involve hundreds of interconnected objects. Trigger-action …

In the next few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) will become a reality, merging the social,
physical, and cyber worlds to enable new applications and forms of interaction between …

Domotics, concerned with the realization of intelligent home environments, is a novel field
which can highly benefit from solutions inspired by service-oriented principles to enhance …

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 …