End-user installation of heterogeneous home automation systems using pen and paper interfaces and dynamically generated documentation

Cost effective, intelligent and network capable devices allow the proliferation of smart home applications in common households. However, user documentation has not evolved to handle end-user installation as complex interaction patterns become increasingly difficult for a human to understand. Our system allows the set-up of a complex home automation scenario using only pen-and-paper interfaces and provides personalized printed documentation. For this purpose, we propose an extension to the openHAB home automation framework based on model driven technologies. The user study presented in this paper shows an improvement of the average task completion time compared to the control group, and gives valuable subjective feedback on designing consistent documentation for complex IoT systems.