ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Internet Things
Sec. IoT Architectures
Volume 4 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/friot.2025.1623733
Managing Self-Explaining Ambient Applications
Provisionally accepted
- Institute of Telematics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in realizing the vision of pervasive computing. The variety of devices and services in the IoT often makes manual integration complex and tedious. To mitigate this challenge, self-organization has emerged as a promising approach. Furthermore, the concept of self-explainability has been proposed to clarify user interactions with dynamically interconnected smart objects. This paper explores related research in the domains of (a) service composition, (b) self-explainability, and (c) application management within smart environments. To address existing limitations, we propose a novel application management concept. Therefore, we extended a framework that utilizes self-explaining applications to generate user instructions dynamically that explain the control of these. A user study was conducted to assess the effectiveness and preferred options of modalities of these instructions. The findings indicate that the approach successfully tackles the research question concerning the integration of self-explaining applications into smart environments.
Keywords: smart object guidance, Self-Reflection, self-organization, ambient applications, Application management
Received: 06 May 2025; Accepted: 18 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kordts, Brandl and Schrader. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Börge Kordts, Institute of Telematics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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