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Recommendations for creating trigger-action rules in a block-based environment

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  • Andrea Mattioli
  • Fabio Paternò

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Given the growing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, several approaches have been presented to enable people to increase their control over their smart devices and provide relevant support. Recommendation systems have been proposed in many domains, but have received limited attention in the area of End-User Development (EUD). We propose a novel approach for formulating recommendations in this area, based on deconstructing trigger-action rules into sequences of elements and the links between them. For this purpose, we propose a solution inspired by methods aimed at addressing the sequence-prediction problem. We have used this approach to provide users with two different types of recommendations: full rules for the one being edited, and parts of rules relevant for the next step to take in order to complete the current rule editing. In this paper, we present the design and a first evaluation of the two different possibilities to generate and display recommendations in a block-based EUD environment for creating automations for IoT contexts.

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  • Andrea Mattioli & Fabio Paternò, 2021. "Recommendations for creating trigger-action rules in a block-based environment," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(10), pages 1024-1034, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:40:y:2021:i:10:p:1024-1034
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2021.1900396
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