Lately, different wearable form factors have reached the consumer domain. Wearables enable at-a-glance access to information\nand can continually sense the surrounding environment. Internet of Things (IoT) researchers have focused on the main enabling\nfactors: the integration of several technologies and communication solutions. Less effort has been devoted to exploring how notso-\ntech-savvy end users can discover and directly interact with the numerous connected things predicted by the IoT vision. This\npaper presents a novel IoT interaction concept called UbiCompass. A functional, smartwatch face prototype of the UbiCompass\nwas developed and integrated with an existing smart home system, in which five different connected devices could be controlled\nusing simple interaction. It was then compared to a traditional smartphone mobile application in a controlled experiment. The\nresults show statistically significant differences in favor of the proposed concept. This highlights the potential the UbiCompass has\nas an IoT interaction concept.
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