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If when is better than if (and while might help): on the importance of influencing mental models in EUD (a pilot study).

Year: 2020

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper, we present a preliminary study aimed at improving the users' mental model of an automatic smart home system based on trigger-action rules.We hypothesized that a computational model of how the rules are evaluated and activated, coupled with a linguistic form of the rules that clarifies the difference between events and states, may improve accuracy in identifying buggy rules, which may eventually increase end-users' acceptance of this type of systems.This pilot study was conducted with non-programmers and provided some evidence in support of this hypothesis.

Source: Iris (University of Trento)

Authors: Giuseppe Gallitto, Barbara Treccani, Massimo Zancanaro

Language: English

Topic: Spreadsheets and End-User Computing

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

Awards: G15967578, Empowering People in Dealing with Internet of Things Ecosystems

OpenAlex ID: W3097753749

FWCI: 0.326

Cites: 15

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10