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CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
AutoHAN: An Architecture for Programming the Home
HCC '01 Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'01)
a CAPpella: programming by demonstration of context-aware applications
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ICAS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
ICN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Eighth International Conference on Networks
A rule-based framework for heterogeneous subsystems management in smart home environment
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
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Current home systems do not support simple, yet sophisticated, ways of controlling the home in a generic and high-level way. In contrast, Homer, a home system for telecare and home automation developed by the authors, is designed to make it easy for non-technical users to achieve this. Developers create home components that expose their services and functionality in a way that encourages combination. Components are made accessible to end-user applications through an HTTP interface, allowing use of any interface technology. Internally, Homer supports automation through policies that combine the functionalities and services offered by components. These policies can be created using many kinds of user interfaces. The Homer architecture, components, policies and user interfaces are discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with an evaluation of the work in comparison to similar systems.