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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Integrating the Smart Home into the Digital Calendar
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Sarah Mennicken
  • David Kim
  • Elaine May Huang
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 9781450333627
Page Range 5958 - 5969
Event Title the 2016 CHI Conference
Event Type conference
Event Location Santa Clara, California, USA
Event Start Date June 7 - 2016
Event End Date June 12 - 2016
Place of Publication New York, New York, USA
Publisher ACM Press
Abstract Text With the growing adoption of smart home technologies, inhabitants are faced with the challenge of making sense of the data that their homes can collect to configure automated behaviors that benefit their routines. Current commercial smart home interfaces usually provide information on individual devices instead of a more comprehensive overview of a home’s behavior. To reduce the complexity of smart home data and integrate it better into inhabitants’ lives, we turned to the familiar metaphor of a calendar and developed our smart home interface Casalendar. In order to investigate the concept and evaluate our goals to facilitate the understanding of smart home data, we created a prototype that we installed in two commercial smart homes for a month. The results we present in this paper are based on our analysis of user data from questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, participant-driven audio and screenshot feedback as well as logged interactions with our system. Our findings exposed advantages and disadvantages of this metaphor, emerging usage patterns, privacy concerns and challenges for information visualization. We further report on implications for design and open challenges we revealed through this work.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1145/2858036.2858168
Other Identification Number merlin-id:13320
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