Title
Analysing Trade-Offs In Frameworks For The Design Of Smart Environments
Abstract
Smart Interactive Experiences (SIEs) are usage situations enabled by the Internet of Things that empower users to interact with the surrounding environment. The goal of our research is to define methodologies and software environments to support the design of SIEs; more specifically, we focus on design paradigms suitable for experts of given domains, who however might not be experts in technology. In this context, this paper discusses some trade-offs that we identified between six different dimensions that characterise the quality of software environments for SIE design. The trade-offs emerged from the analysis of data collected in an experimental study that compared three different design paradigms to understand in which measure each paradigm supports the creative process for SIE design. After reporting on the study procedure and the data analyses, the paper illustrates how the resulting trade-offs led us to identify alternatives for SIE design paradigms, and to structure on their basis a modular architecture of a software platform where the strengths of the three paradigms can be exploited flexibly, i.e. depending on the constraints and the requirements characterising specific design situations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1080/0144929X.2019.1634760
BEHAVIOUR & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Internet of things, non-technical domain experts, trigger-action programming, tangible user interfaces, trade-offs in design, user study
Journal
39
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0144-929X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carmelo Ardito142546.26
Giuseppe Desolda200.34
R. Lanzilotti318115.22
Alessio Malizia426236.36
Maristella Matera51093111.97