With the increasing adoption of smart home devices, users rely on device automation to
control their homes. This automation commonly comes in the form of smart home routines …

This paper presents an approach to detecting and resolving the conflicts that may arise
when different users create routines for a shared smart home. By interacting with a virtual …

Smart speakers are entering our homes and enriching the connected ecosystem already
present in them. Home inhabitants can use those to execute relatively simple commands …

Setup and management of smart home systems is a complex task, and thus challenging for
technically inexperienced users. We conducted a qualitative user study to evaluate whether …

Conflict is one of the important factors affecting user satisfaction and trust in smart
environments, yet conflict modeling in mixed initiative smart environments has not been …

Smart home systems are becoming an integral feature of the emerging home IT market.
Under this general term, products mainly address issues of security, energy savings and …

As the adoption of IoT-based smart homes continues to grow, the importance of addressing
potential conflicts becomes increasingly vital for ensuring seamless functionality and user …

Ubiquitous environments, such as smart homes, are becoming more intelligent and
autonomous. As a result, their behavior becomes harder to grasp and unintended behavior …

Emerging technologies such as Internet-of-Things, sensors, and communication networks
have been introduced into traditional homes to offer a wide range of smart home services to …

There are many research efforts on situation awareness in smart home with a single user.
However, a harder problem is situation awareness when multiple users are present. We …