Recognition of human behavior plays an important role in context-aware applications.
However, it is still a challenge for end-users to build personalized applications that …

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

One of the central research challenges in the Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Computing
domains is how users can be enabled to “program” their personal and industrial smart …

The pervasiveness of ICT technologies has led to a growing need to empower people to
obtain applications that meet their specific requirements. End-User Development (EUD) is a …

The rapid advances in technologies have brought new interaction paradigms of smart
objects (eg, digital devices) beyond digital device screens. By utilizing spatial properties …

Internet of Things (IoT) frequently involves conflicting interactions between devices and
features that must be resolved to a single system state. The problem of feature interaction …

We present an approach that combines semantic metadata and reasoning with a visual
modeling tool to enable the goal-driven configuration of smart environments for end users. In …

This paper presents how the TAREME (Trigger-Action Rule Editing, Monitoring, Executing)
platform provides support for executing and analysing personalized automations in Internet …

End users can nowadays define applications in the format of IF-THEN rules to personalize
their IoT devices and online services. Along with the possibility to compose such …

Applications envisioned for the Internet of Things (IoT) would generally have to fulfill their
design goals by mashing up devices and digital services in a manner that is both flexible …