Towards Understanding User Interaction in Future Smart Homes
Title of conference publication:
CHI '19 Workshop: New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care
Conference title:
CHI Workshop on New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care (2019, Glasgow)
Venue:
Glasgow, UK
Year of conference:
2019
Year:
2019
Language:
Englisch
Keywords:
IoT ; Internet of Things ; Smart Home ; Smart Devices ; NFC ; Android ; Field Study ; Data Collection ; In-the-wild
Abstract:
IoT devices are currently finding their way into peoples homes, providing rich functionality by means of various interaction modalities. We see great potential in collecting and analysing data about users' interaction with their smart home devices to gain insights about their daily life behaviour for self-reflection as well as security purposes. We present a methodology to study interaction with IoT devices in users' (smart) homes. Logging daily behaviour usually comes with high effort and often interrupts natural interaction. Hence, we suggest an unobtrusive logging approach by means of a smartwatch and NFC technology. Participants scan interaction with devices using self-placed NFC tags. We tested our method with two flat shares in two cities and provide preliminary insights with regards to the strengths and weaknesses of our study approach. «
IoT devices are currently finding their way into peoples homes, providing rich functionality by means of various interaction modalities. We see great potential in collecting and analysing data about users' interaction with their smart home devices to gain insights about their daily life behaviour for self-reflection as well as security purposes. We present a methodology to study interaction with IoT devices in users' (smart) homes. Logging daily behaviour usually comes with high effort and often... »