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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Trigger-Action Programming in the Wild An Analysis of 200,000 IFTTT Recipes
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Blase Ur
  • Melwyn Pak Yong Ho
  • Stephen Brawner
  • Jiyun Lee
  • Sarah Mennicken
  • Noah Picard
  • Diane Schulze
  • Michael L. Littman
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 9781450333627
Page Range 3227 - 3231
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 While researchers have long investigated end-user program- ming using a trigger-action (if-then) model, the website IFTTT is among the first instances of this paradigm being used on a large scale. To understand what IFTTT users are creating, we scraped the 224,590 programs shared pub- licly on IFTTT as of September 2015 and are releasing this dataset to spur future research. We characterize aspects of these programs and the IFTTT ecosystem over time. We find a large number of users are crafting a diverse set of end- user programs—over 100,000 different users have shared pro- grams. These programs represent a very broad array of con- nections that appear to fill gaps in functionality, yet users of- ten duplicate others’ programs.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1145/2858036.2858556
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