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Exploring IoT User Dimensions

A Multi-case Study on User Interactions in ‘Internet of Things’ Systems

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)

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‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) systems are fundamentally changing the way in which users interact and perceive technology. In this paper, we focus on two of the numerous dimensions of IoT systems with which the users interact; (1) the IoT user interface and (2) the IoT ecosystem. Based on literature, we develop a model that identifies how data is presented to users and how users interact with the system, and the level at which systems interconnect with, and collects data from, multiple systems. Companies can use the model to assess their systems in order to identify the current state of their systems and to identify the desired state. Moreover, the model can be used to better understand the steps necessary for transforming from one dimension to another in order to develop more advanced IoT systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Malmö University, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, 205 06, Malmö, Sweden

    Helena H. Olsson & Brian Katumba

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Hörselgången 11, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  3. and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Anh Nguyen Duc

  4. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  5. Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Japan

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  6. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Tommi Mikkonen

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Olsson, H.H., Bosch, J., Katumba, B. (2016). Exploring IoT User Dimensions. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_33

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