Designing a Home of the Future
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Evolution towards smart home environments: empirical evaluation of three user interfaces
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The domestic economy: a broader unit of analysis for end user programming
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Home networking and HCI: what hath god wrought?
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The work to make a home network work
ECSCW'05 Proceedings of the ninth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
More than meets the eye: transforming the user experience of home network management
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
The ins and outs of home networking: The case for useful and usable domestic networking
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Access Control for Home Data Sharing: Attitudes, Needs and Practices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How smart homes learn: the evolution of the networked home and household
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Challenges in access right assignment for secure home networks
HotSec'10 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on Hot topics in security
Why is my internet slow?: making network speeds visible
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PreHeat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
An operating system for the home
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
HomeLab: a platform for conducting experiments with connected devices in the home
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Lab of things: a platform for conducting studies with connected devices in multiple homes
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
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Researchers who develop new home technologies using connected devices (e.g. sensors) often want to conduct large-scale field studies in homes to evaluate their technology, but conducting such studies today is quite challenging, if not impossible. Considerable custom engineering is required to ensure hardware and software prototypes work robustly, and recruiting and managing more than a handful of households can be difficult and cost-prohibitive. To lower the barrier to developing and evaluating new technologies for the home environment, we call for the development of a shared infrastructure, called HomeLab. HomeLab consists of a large number of geographically distributed households, each running a common, flexible framework (e.g., HomeOS [4]) in which experiments are implemented. The use of a common framework enables engineering effort, along with experience and expertise, to be shared among many research groups. Recruitment of households to HomeLab can be organic: as a research group recruits (a few) households to participate in its field study, these households can be invited to join HomeLab and participate in future studies conducted by other groups. As the pool of households participating in HomeLab grows, we hope that researchers will find it easier to recruit a large number of households to participate in field studies.