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@inproceedings{homemanager-its2014,
    address = {Taipei, Taiwan},
    apice = {HomeManITS2014},
    author = {Denti, Enrico and Calegari, Roberta and Prandini, Marco},
    booktitle = {5th International Conference on Internet Technologies \& Society 2014 (ITS 2014)},
    editor = {Kommers, Piet and Issa, Tomayess and Chang, Dian-Fu and Isaías, Pedro},
    isbn = {978-989-8533-29-6},
    month = {10--12~} # dec,
    note = {Best Paper Award},
    pages = {23--30},
    publisher = {IADIS Press},
    title = {Extending a Smart Home Multi-Agent System with Role-Based Access Control},
    year = 2014
}

@article{ed-user-interaction-manifesto,
    abstract = {There is a no-man's land between how the Graphical User Interfaces are typically conceived, designed and engineered in desktop applications and mobile apps, and what users actually expect: it's where the users' experience, expectations, training, habits, mental attitude come into play. New software versions add features, change the GUI layout, behavior and environment for innovation and marketing reasons, but in doing so they often disregard the value of the user experience: all the user can do is accept the new situation and trying to adapt. To make things worse, customization options are usually limited when it comes to restoring the previous environment, and downgrading restrictions in software licenses also apply. Background services may also start at the worst time, monopolizing the system against the user's will, causing frustration and possibly more serious problems due to service unavailability. In short, there's a grey cross area in software design and deployment where the user is not fully respected as a person whose experience is intrinsically a value worth preserving. In this paper we analyze and discuss some common situations from different scenarios, and exploit them to extract some golden rules for a more respected software user – the Respected User Manifesto.},
    address = {Alhambra, CA 91801, USA},
    apice = {EDUserInteractionManifesto},
    author = {Denti, Enrico},
    doi = {10.13189/wjcat.2014.020103},
    eissn = {2331-4990},
    iris = {11585/204016},
    issn = {2331-4982},
    journal = {World Journal of Computer Application and Technology},
    keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Graphical User Interfaces Guidelines, User Experience, UI Design, Manifesto, Software Deployment, Downgrade Right},
    month = {January},
    note = {Available online from December 3, 2013},
    number = 1,
    numpages = 12,
    pages = {10--21},
    publisher = {Horizon Research Publishing Company},
    title = {Valuing the User Experience in Human-Computer Interaction: the Respected User Manifesto},
    url = {https://www.hrpub.org/journals/article_info.php?aid=1094},
    urlpdf = {http://www.hrpub.org/download/20131215/WJCAT3-13701807.pdf},
    volume = 2,
    year = 2014
}

@article{butlers-springerplus3,
    abstract = {Many efforts today aim to energy saving, promoting the user's awareness and virtuous behavior in a sustainability perspective. Our houses, appliances, energy meters and devices are becoming smarter and connected, domotics is increasing possibilities in house automation and control, and ambient intelligence and assisted living are bringing attention onto people's needs from different viewpoints.Our assumption is that considering these aspects together allows for novel intriguing possibilities. To this end, in this paper we combine home energy management with domotics, coordination technologies, intelligent agents, ambient intelligence, ubiquitous technologies and gamification to devise novel scenarios, where energy monitoring and management is just the basic brick of a much wider and comprehensive home management system. The aim is to control home appliances well beyond energy consumption, combining home comfort, appliance scheduling, safety constraints, etc. with dynamically-changeable users' preferences, goals and priorities. At the same time, usability and attractiveness are seen as key success factors: so, the intriguing technologies available in most houses and smart devices are exploited to make the system configuration and use simpler, entertaining and attractive for users. These aspects are also integrated with ubiquitous and pervasive technologies, geo-localization, social networks and communities to provide enhanced functionalities and support smarter application scenarios, hereby further strengthening technology acceptation and diffusion.Accordingly, we first analyse the system requirements and define a reference multi-layer architectural model - the Butlers architecture - that specifies seven layers of functionalities, correlating the requirements, the corresponding technologies and the consequent value-added for users in each layer. Then, we outline a set of notable scenarios of increasing functionalities and complexity, discuss the structure of the corresponding system patterns in terms of the proposed architecture, and make this concrete by presenting some comprehensive interaction examples as comic strip stories. Next, we discuss the implementation requirements and how they can be met with the available technologies, discuss a possible architecture, refine it in the concrete case of the TuCSoN coordination technology, present a subsystem prototype and discuss its properties in the Butlers perspective.},
    apice = {ButlersSpringerplus3},
    author = {Denti, Enrico},
    doi = {10.1186/2193-1801-3-52},
    eissn = {2193-1801},
    iris = {11585/223673},
    journal = {SpringerPlus},
    keywords = {Home management, Ambient intelligence, Energy saving, Coordination infrastructures, Multi-Agent systems, Pervasive computing, Gamification, Smart homes, Smart living},
    month = jan,
    number = 52,
    numpages = 30,
    pages = {1--30},
    publisher = {Springer},
    scopus = {2-s2.0-84897801502},
    title = {Novel pervasive scenarios for home management: the Butlers architecture},
    url = {http://www.springerplus.com/content/3/1/52/abstract},
    volume = 3,
    wos = {WOS:000358914200001},
    year = 2014
}