Abstract
The widespread introduction of the Internet of Things into people’s daily lives calls for approaches that allow even unskilled end users to autonomously configure their own smart environments. Various tools, either research or commercial, are available, which allow end users to combine smart objects and services for creating applications that meet their needs. However, challenging issues do persist, including interaction paradigms adequate to end users, as well as the ability to control that the created applications will do what they are intended to. This work-in-progress proposes the integration of two recently developed tools, in order to overcome some limitations of the existing solutions.
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This work is partially supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) under grant PRIN 2017 “EMPATHY: EMpowering People in deAling with internet of THings ecosYstems”.
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Ardito, C. et al. (2019). Improving Tools that Allow End Users to Configure Smart Environments. In: Malizia, A., Valtolina, S., Morch, A., Serrano, A., Stratton, A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11553. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_24
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