What people think about green smart homes

Current technological trends have enabled several smart spaces in our daily environments. A typical example is the home, which is becoming more and more populated by connected objects and sensors. In this way, even people who are not professional software developers can create automations that compose the dynamic behaviours of such connected objects. In this paper, we report and discuss two online surveys targeting two different groups of users: one consists of a general population of end users with different degrees of experience in smart home use and personalization, and the other composed of people who have already some experiences in directly creating automations and managing smart environments. Overall, such studies provide useful information for better understanding the requirements that end-user development approaches should address to be successful in order to be actually adopted in such contexts.