SDIF: Social device interaction framework for encounter and play in smart home service.

In this paper, a framework for the mutual interaction of smart devices used in a smart home service is proposed by utilizing the concept of device sociality to minimize human interventions. The framework makes easy device collaboration possible by providing social relations among devices when they encounter each other. To measure the effect of the reduction in human intervention during the process of configuring the mutual interactions of such devices, a zero configuration index of the mutual interaction processes among smart devices was adopted. To show its feasibility in terms of minimizing human intervention, the proposed method was compared with another traditional device interaction protocol for a file and screen sharing application between two smart devices.