Sensemaking in the autonomic smart-home

In the future smart living spaces the users will face more and more misunderstanding situations. In this paper we present an original scenario showing three aspects: the misunderstanding situations, the purpose requests and the causality requests. Autonomic computing is an approach to overcome the massive development of the Internet and the growing complexity of resources and services management in the IT domain. We state that since the smart-home has to self-managed they need to be autonomic. As a contribution we introduce a model that extends the autonomic architecture in order to manage misunderstanding situations and facilitate the sensemaking processes in the Autonomic Smart-Home. We name this extension IHMUNE which stands for Intelligent Home Manager for Understandable Novel Experiences. Then we discuss about the different kinds of collaborations that will arise in the smart-cities, the privacy concerns and the sensemaking.