Challenges for End-User Development in Intelligent Environments

Abstract

Intelligent environments will be able to observe and sense the events that are happening around them. For these environments to become intelligent, however, they need to learn what appropriate and sensible behavior is in a given situation. The main challenge of ambient intelligent environments is not to physically integrate technology in the environment, but to socially integrate the system behavior into the fabric of everyday life. This means that an intelligent environment needs to be taught by its users how it should conduct and what position it should take. This paper will discuss two examples of end-user development in intelligent environments as a way to indicate the research challenges in this area.