End-User Programming for Smart Educational Devices: Exploring the Role of Linguistic Aspects, Mental Models, and Reasoning Strategies in Trigger-Action Rules Composition and Debugging

Enabling individuals to personalize and control the functionality of their smart devices is essential, particularly in educational environments where customized curricula are necessary for each student. To achieve this goal, End-User Programming through trigger-action rules seems to be a promising approach to empower teachers to reach this goal. However, to handle complex scenarios, End-User Programming systems must support naive users in adopting effective reasoning strategies and mental models. My Ph.D. research intends to explore specific linguistic aspects that can guide teachers in creating and debugging trigger-action rules for programming their smart educational devices, supporting them to assume effective mental models and reasoning strategies.