Exploring the responsibilities of single-inhabitant Smart Homes with Use Cases

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lyons, Paul | Cong, An Tran | Steinhauer, H. Joe | Marsland, Stephen | Dietrich, Jens | Guesgen, Hans W.

Affiliations: School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Abstract: This paper makes a number of contributions to the field of requirements analysis for Smart Homes. It introduces Use Cases as a tool for exploring the responsibilities of Smart Homes and it proposes a modification of the conventional Use Case structure to suit the particular requirements of Smart Homes. It presents a taxonomy of Smart-Home-related Use Cases with seven categories. It draws on those Use Cases as raw material for developing questions and conclusions about the design of Smart Homes for single elderly inhabitants, and it introduces the SHMUC repository, a web-based repository of Use Cases related to Smart Homes that anyone can exploit and to which anyone may contribute.

Keywords: Use Case, taxonomy, Smart Home, smart environments, SHMUC

DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2010-0076

Journal: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 211-232, 2010