Coutaz, Joëlle
and Crowley, James L.
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Appsgate, a Programmable Domestic Eco-system: Learning from "Living in it"
jips:4901 -
Journal d'Interaction Personne-Système,
October 19, 2018,
Volume 7, Number 1
Appsgate, a Programmable Domestic Eco-system: Learning from "Living in it"
Authors: Coutaz, Joëlle
and Crowley, James L.
We present an experience with the development and evaluation of AppsGate, an ecosystem for the home that can be programmed by end-users. We show the benefits from using the homes of the project team members as real-life living-labs. In particular, we discuss the first person perspective experience as an effective way to conduct longitudinal experiments in real world settings. We conclude that a programmable habitat is desirable provided that attention cost is minimized