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Mi Casa es Su Casa (“MiSu”): A Mobile App for Sharing Smart Home Devices with People Outside The Home

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Leena Alghamdi,

Mamtaj Akter,

Cristobal Sepulveda Cardenas,

Pamela J. WisniewskiAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW'22 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 184 - 187

https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559709

Published: 08 November 2022 Publication History

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As smart devices are becoming commonplace in the home, people have begun sharing access to these devices with people beyond the home. However, the "all-or-nothing" approach to access control taken by most smart home applications may be insufficient for use cases that involve others outside of the home. Therefore, we developed “MiSu” an Android and iOS app that allows smart home homeowners to share their devices (e.g., Ring doorbell, security alarm, smart door lock, smart light bulb) with people outside of their home to control what, when, and how they can engage with the smart devices. MiSu provides options for fine-grain access control, the ability for guests to control smart homes using their own device and login, and provides homeowners real-time logs where they can view all actions taken by guests invited to interact with their smart homes.

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Mi Casa es Su Casa (“MiSu”): A Mobile App for Sharing Smart Home Devices with People Outside The Home
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interactive systems and tools
      1. User interface programming

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CSCW'22 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

November 2022

318 pages

ISBN:9781450391900

DOI:10.1145/3500868

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Gary Hsieh
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Anthony Tang
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Morgan G. Ames
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
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Sharon Ding
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Susan Fussell
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
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Vera Liao
Microsoft Research, Montreal, Canada
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
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Sean Munson
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Irina Shklovski
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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John Tang
Microsoft Research, Sunnyvale, USA

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Bilius LAndrei AVatavu R(2024)From Smart Buildings to Smart Vehicles: Mobile User Interfaces for Multi-Environment Interactions2024 International Conference on Development and Application Systems (DAS)10.1109/DAS61944.2024.10541208(152-155)Online publication date: 23-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/DAS61944.2024.10541208
AlQahtani AAlamleh H(2023)Optimizing Smart Home Performance and User Convenience with RSSI-based Proximity Detection2023 IEEE 13th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)10.1109/CCWC57344.2023.10099153(0319-0325)Online publication date: 8-Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/CCWC57344.2023.10099153

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