Ali Zaidi

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Control in Context: How Smart Home Users Navigate Proxy-based Schemes

A homeowner controls their smart home devices along a spectrum of approaches, ranging from physical device control to various proxy-based control modalities. This paper studies how and why users move along this spectrum in their day-to-day lives, building upon existing research that focused only on specific interactio…

DIS '251st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

From Sociotechnical Gaps to Solutions: Designing AI Tools with Parents to Address Special Education Advocacy Barriers in IEP Processes

Parents of children with disabilities face significant challenges navigating special education, particularly during Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings with school administration, where they must advocate for their child to receive accommodations. Existing advocacy support methods often exclude families wi…

UBICOMP '231st AuthorSmart Home Interaction Design +1

A User-Centric Evaluation of Smart Home Resolution Approaches for Conflicts Between Routines

"With the increasing adoption of smart home devices, users rely on device automation to control their homes. This automation commonly comes in the form of smart home routines, an abstraction available via major vendors. Yet, questions remain about how a system should best handle conflicts in which different routines a…

UIST '231st AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +1

Learning Custom Experience Ontologies via Embedding-based Feedback Loops

Companies and organizations rely on behavioral analytics tools like Google Analytics to monitor their digital experiences. Making sense of the data these tools capture, however, requires manual event tagging and filtering---often a tedious process. Prior research approaches have trained machine learning models to auto…

UIST '212nd AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +1

App-Based Task Shortcuts for Virtual Assistants

Virtual assistants like Google Assistant and Siri often interface with external apps when they cannot directly perform a task. Currently, developers must manually expose the capabilities of their apps to virtual assistants, using App Actions on Android or Shortcuts on iOS. This paper presents SAVANT, a system that aut…

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