Title
Building and Using Home Automation Systems: A Field Study
Abstract
These last years, several new home automation boxes appeared on the market, the new radio-based protocols facilitating their deployment with respect to previously wired solutions. Coupled with the wider availability of connected objects, these protocols have allowed new users to set up home automation systems by themselves. In this paper, we relate an in situ observational study of these builders in order to understand why and how the smart habitats were developed and used. We led 10 semi-structured interviews in households composed of at least 2 adults and equipped for at least 1 year, and 47 home automation builders answered an online questionnaire at the end of the study. Our study confirms, specifies and exhibits additional insights about usages and means of end-user development in the context of home automation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-18425-8_9
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
End user development,Home automation,Field study
World Wide Web,Software deployment,End-user development,Computer-assisted web interviewing,Home automation,Engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9083
0302-9743
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.67
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandre Demeure128719.38
Sybille Caffiau2739.64
Elena Elias3241.73
Camille Roux41014.93