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Demo of a smart plant system as an exemplary smart home application supporting non-urgent notifications

The present work is a demonstration of a smart plant system that monitors the current water level of a plant. Since related work showed that users are already overwhelmed by notifications in their daily lives, how to design smart home applications that use notifications is an important research question. To study how users experience non-urgent smart home notifications in their daily lives, we decided to use a smart plant system that notifies the users when the plant needs water as an exemplary smart home application. We developed a fully functional smart plant system for the usage in in-situ studies. Our smart plant system can notify the users either using an integrated ambient display in the plant pot or by sending notifications to the users' smartphones. Using these prototypes, we study the user experience of different strategies and locations to display non-urgent smart home notifications.