Dataset: Analysis of IFTTT Recipes to Study How Humans Use Internet-of-Things (IoT) Devices

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With the rapid development and usage of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and smart-home devices, researchers continue efforts to improve the "smartness" of those devices to address daily needs in people's lives.

• Such efforts usually begin with understanding evolving user behaviors on how humans utilize the devices and what they expect in terms of their behavior.
• However, while research efforts abound, there is a very limited number of datasets that researchers can use to both understand how people use IoT devices and to evaluate algorithms or systems for smart spaces.
• In this paper, we collect and characterize more than 50,000 recipes from the online If-This-Then-That (IFTTT) service to understand a seemingly straightforward but complicated question: "What kinds of behaviors do humans expect from their IoT devices?"