IFTTT vs. Zapier: A Comparative Study of Trigger-Action Programming Frameworks
IFTTT vs. Zapier: A Comparative Study of Trigger-Action Programming Frameworks
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IFTTT 与 Zapier：触发动作编程框架的比较研究
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2017
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A. Prakash
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Amir Rahmati;Earlence Fernandes;Jaeyeon Jung;A. Prakash
随着在线服务和物联网平台的日益流行，以及开发人员通过REST风格的API访问设备和服务的增加，正在催生一类支持触发式编程的新框架。这些框架为终端用户提供了一个接口，以便在触发器操作模型中连接不同的REST风格的API，并轻松创建跨不同平台的自动化任务。过去的工作在IFTTT的背景下描述了用户创建的触发-动作组合的空间，IFTTT是一个流行的触发-动作框架。在这项工作中，我们描述了这类框架在两个主要框架--IFTTT和Zapier--的背景下向最终用户开放的可能功能的空间，并讨论了我们对这些框架进行比较分析的结果。我们创建了这两个框架中来自1051个渠道/应用程序的6406个触发器和动作的快照，并比较了可用的功能、渠道的分布以及它们之间共享的功能。我们检查用户定义他们自己的通道、触发器和操作的能力；分析这些框架的发展；并讨论该领域未来的研究机会。
The growing popularity of online services and IoT platforms along with increased developer's access to devices and services through RESTful APIs is giving rise to a new class of frameworks that support trigger-action programming. These frameworks provide an interface for end-users to bridge different RESTful APIs in a trigger-action model and easily create automated tasks across diverse platforms. Past work has characterized the space of user-created trigger-action combinations in the context of IFTTT, a popular trigger-action framework. In this work, we characterize the space of possible functionality that such frameworks open up to end-users in the context of two major frameworks -IFTTT and Zapier- and discuss results from our comparative analysis of these frameworks. We create a snapshot of 6406 triggers and actions from 1051 channels/apps across these two frameworks and compare the available functions, distribution of channels, and functions shared between them. We examine user's ability to define their own channels, triggers, and actions; analyze the growth of these frameworks; and discuss future research opportunities in this domain.
DOI：
10.1145/2858036.2858556
发表时间：
2016-05
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Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Blase Ur;Melwyn Pak Yong Ho;Stephen Brawner;Jiyun Lee;Sarah Mennicken;N. Picard;Diane Schulze;M. Littman
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Blase Ur;Melwyn Pak Yong Ho;Stephen Brawner;Jiyun Lee;Sarah Mennicken;N. Picard;Diane Schulze;M. Littman