Personalizing IoT Ecosystems via Voice

Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs), embedded in smart speakers, allow users to set up some trigger-action rules, via their mobile apps, to personalize the IoT ecosystem in which they are located. Vocal capabilities might be involved in such rules as triggers or actions, but the actual rule composition and execution flow is totally segregated into the mobile app. This position paper reflects on the challenges and opportunities brought by IPAs if they played a more prominent and integrated role in this personalization scenario