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Sarah Prange, Christian Tiefenau, Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Florian Alt
Towards Understanding User Interaction in Future Smart Homes
In CHI '19 Workshop: New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care (bib)

IoT devices are currently finding their way into peopleâs homes, providing rich functionality by means of various interaction modalities. We see great potential in collecting and analysing data about usersâ interaction with their smart home devices to gain insights about their daily life behaviour for self-reflection as well as security purposes. We present a methodology to study interaction with IoT devices in usersâ (smart) homes. Logging daily behaviour usually comes with high effort and often interrupts natural interaction. Hence, we suggest an unobtrusive logging approach by means of a smartwatch and NFC technology. Participants scan interaction with devices using self-placed NFC tags. We tested our method with two flat shares in two cities and provide preliminary insights with regards to the strengths and weaknesses of our study approach.