End-user developers at home

ABSTRACT

There have been many "homes of the future" demonstrations, in which intelligent appliances communicate with each other for the convenience of the homeowner. Manufacturers, wealthy celebrities, gadget lovers, and researchers think they are great. But now that transport-layer technology for highly networked homes is commercially feasible (whether WiFi or simply cheap cabling), it's time to ask why typical households need it.

REFERENCES

• 1: Alan F. Blackwell, First Steps in Programming: A Rationale for Attention Investment Models, Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02), p.2, September 03-06, 2002
• 2: Alan F. Blackwell , Rob Hague, AutoHAN: An Architecture for Programming the Home, Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'01), p.150, September 05-07, 2001
• 3: Blackwell, A.F., Hewson, R.L. and Green, T.R.G. Product design to support user abstractions.Handbook of Cognitive Task Design. E. Hollnagel, Ed. Lawrence Erlbaum, Englewood, NJ, 2003, 525--545.
• 4: Simon Peyton Jones , Alan Blackwell , Margaret Burnett, A user-centred approach to functions in excel, Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming, p.165-176, August 25-29, 2003, Uppsala, Sweden
• 5: Jennifer A. Rode , Eleanor F. Toye , Alan F. Blackwell, The fuzzy felt ethnography—understanding the programming patterns of domestic appliances, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, v.8 n.3-4, p.161-176, July 2004 [doi>10.1007/s00779-004-0272-0]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.1 Project and People Management