Technological progress accompanies us in many different types of interaction, including in the relation in managing a residential house and office buildings. From ordinary switches and thermostats, through dedicated tablets and smart phones, we now have new ways of interacting and new interfaces for smart home management. We are seeing a new product – intelligent buttons. From the functionality point of view, they are closer to regular switches, but they have added features like managing the thermostat, added sensors and programmability. In this thesis, we have evaluated the user experience controling smart home with intelligent buttons and compared it to the user experience of controlling the home with regular switches, mobile app and speech.
The first part of the thesis presents the preparation for evaluation and the evaluation process itself. From determining research questions, user scenarios and process execution to pilot evaluation of the experiment and evaluation with real users and used methodology.
The second part presents the results obtained after the data analysis, as well as the conclusions, findings and suggestions for improvements of the intelligent buttons.
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