%0 Journal Article %T ParlAmI: A Multimodal Approach for Programming Intelligent Environments£¿ %J Technologies | An Open Access Journal from MDPI %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies7010011 %X The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services and their integration in intelligent environments creates the need for a simple yet effective way of controlling and communicating with them. Towards such a direction, this work presents ParlAmI, a conversational framework featuring a multimodal chatbot that permits users to create simple ¡°if-then¡± rules to define the behavior of an intelligent environment. ParlAmI delivers a disembodied conversational agent in the form of a messaging application named MAI, and an embodied conversational agent named nAoMI employing the programmable humanoid robot NAO. This paper describes the requirements and architecture of ParlAmI, the infrastructure of the ¡°Intelligent Home¡± in which ParlAmI is deployed, the characteristics and functionality of both MAI and nAoMI, and finally presents the findings of a user experience evaluation that was conducted with the participation of sixteen users. View Full-Tex %U https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/7/1/11