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Addressing the Need to Capture Scenarios, Intentions and Preferences: Interactive Intentional Programming in the Smart Home

Mathias Funk
http://mathias-funk.com
Industrial Design Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Mathias Funk is assistant professor in the Future Everyday group in the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has a background in Computer Science and a PhD in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include complex systems design, distributed IoT applications, remote data collection, systems for musical expression, and design tools. In the past he has worked at the Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory (ATR) in Japan, at RWTH Aachen, at Philips Consumer Lifestyle, and at Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA. He is also a co-founder of UXsuite, a high-tech spin-off from Eindhoven University of Technology.

Lin-Lin Chen
Industrial Design Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Netherlands

Lin-Lin Chen is dean of the Faculty of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. She is also a professor in the Department of Design at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST). She received her BS degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and her PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She was dean of the College of Design at NTUST from 2004 to 2010, president of the Chinese Institute of Design from 2007 to 2008, and convener for the arts (and design) area committee of Taiwan’s National Science Council from 2009 to 2011. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Design (SCI, SSCI, AHCI), current president of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), and a fellow of the Design Research Society. Her research focuses on user–IoT interfaces, design innovation, and product aesthetics.

Shao-Wen Yang
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA
United States

Yen-Kuang Chen received his PhD degree from Princeton University, NJ, and is a principal engineer at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. His research areas span from emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications to computer architecture that can embrace emerging applications. He is passionate about IoT and the smart home. He has more than 100 IoT devices in his home. He has 60+ US patents, 20+ pending patent applications, and 100+ technical publications. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Yen-Kuang Chen
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA
United States

Shao-Wen Yang is a senior staff research scientist at Intel Labs, Intel Corporation. He received his PhD degree in computer science from National Taiwan University in 2011. He joined Intel Labs in Taiwan in 2013 as a resident scientist in the Intel–NTU Connected Context Computing Center and focused on research and development of Internet of Things technology and middleware. In 2016 he moved to California, and started to focus on the Internet of Video Things. He served on the technical program committee of the Design Automation Conference and has served as a guest editor for several international journals. His current research interests include various aspects of visual fog computing, especially ease-of-use frameworks for workload creation, and partitioning and orchestration of visual fog workloads. He has over 20 technical publications, and over 60 patents and pending patent applications.