Learning about End-User Development for Smart Homes by "Eating Our Own Dog Food"
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SPOK is an End-User Development Environment that permits people to monitor, control, and configure smart home services and devices. SPOK has been deployed for more than 4 months in the homes of 5 project team members for testing and refinement, prior to longitudinal experiments in the homes of families not involved in the project. This article reports on the lessons learned in this initial deployment.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1510.01050 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015