Section: New Results

Knit your Ideas Into Smart Spaces

Participants : Joelle Coutaz, Alexandre Demeure [correspondant] , Emeric Fontaine.

We developped KISS (Knit your Ideas Into Smart Spaces), an end-user development system for the home. KISS enables users to program their home with sentences expressed in a pseudo-natural language. Programs can be tested either with the virtual home or in the real home. We led an evaluation that shows that users are able to program a real-life scenario. This work is described in the phd manuscript of Emeric Fontaine [46] . An experimental evaluation shows that KISS can be used to programm a real life scenario.

Particpants encountered some difficulties related to the restricted vocabulary used for the experiment. Some difficulties also occured relative to the understanding of "progressive verbs". To overcome these problems, we envision a system for co-constructing vocabulary with the system, which may lead to the definition of multiple language for communicating with the system.