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The Smart Home User Experience Dilemma: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Paetz Chemnitz University Munich, Nov 2014

The document discusses a model for managing smart home user experiences by establishing standard elements, events, apps, and consoles. It proposes that all functions be represented as equal elements, all status changes be represented as equal events, all additional functions be represented as equal apps, and all access methods be represented as equal consoles or displays. This is intended to simplify the complexity of different homes, devices, and use cases while allowing for extensibility.

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The Smart Home User Experience Dilemma: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Paetz Chemnitz University Munich, Nov 2014

The document discusses a model for managing smart home user experiences by establishing standard elements, events, apps, and consoles. It proposes that all functions be represented as equal elements, all status changes be represented as equal events, all additional functions be represented as equal apps, and all access methods be represented as equal consoles or displays. This is intended to simplify the complexity of different homes, devices, and use cases while allowing for extensibility.

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The Smart Home User

Experience Dilemma
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Paetz
Chemnitz University
Munich, Nov 2014
Problem statement
• There is no commonly accepted best practise
in managing a Smart Home
(like the X of closing a window on a PC)
• There is no standard apartment or home
(every home has different style, naming and
position of windows, doors, light, ...)
• There is no standard set of use cases for the
Smart Home but complexity
How to solve this
• Learn from the young ones - Elementary School
– Keep it simple in the beginning
– Allow early success on little things
– Repeat, repeat and again repeat
• Learn from the old ones - Modeling science theory
(*)
– Readable yet formal
– Information hiding
– Separation of concerns
– Establish basic set of rules and stick to it.

Ramesh Bharadwaj, C: Heitmeyer: Applying the SCR Requirements Specification Method to Practial Systems: A Case
Study, 21st Software Engineering Workshop, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Dec. 1996
Solomon Golomb: Models (1968)
• Don’t apply a model until you
understand the simplifying
assumptions on which it is based and
can test their applicability.
• Distinguish at all times between the
model and the real world.
• The purpose of notation and
terminology should be to enhance
insight and facilitate computation –
not to impress or confuse the
uninitiated

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What does this mean to us

•Elements
•Events
•Apps
Elements
• All functions in a smart home, regardless of action
or information are displays in one element each
– “All elements are created equal”
– Elements have same size, same color, same extensions,
same configuration
– Whether the function is performed by a physical
device or a virtual device or a special function or or or ,
its always one single element
How to manage Elements
• Sea of elements
• Small number of managed elements call for
hierarchy, large numbers of elements call for
search (see yahoo in the first days versus
google today)
• There are only two groupings
– Dashboard – the important elements
– Rooms – all elements assigned by room
Events
• Every change of a status (actor) or a value (sensor)
is an event
• „All events are created equal“
• Events can be filtered by device, root cause, etc.
• All Events have same size, same color, same
information
• Whether the event is generated by a physical
device or a virtual device or a special function or
or or …, its always one single event
Apps
• Every function above and beyond accessing
information or controlling devices is an application,
short app
• Apps can do
– Aggregation of information based on other information
– Information from outside the home ( e.g. weather)
– Aggregated action (scenes)
– Automation (e.g. if -> then)
– Complex usage of the devices (e.g. alarm system)
Apps Display
• All apps are displayed equal
– In app store
– In local app repository
– In list of active apps
• Apps can be added by users, installers,...
• Apps can be created by users, developers, ...
Consoles
• The Smart Home is used (controlled,
configured and monitored) in multiple way,
parallel and simultaneously
– Web browser
– iPAD
– Phone
– Wall Panel
– Local control on device
All displays are created equal
• Web,
• Pad,
• Phone

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