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I Would Like Some Food: Anchoring Objects to Semantic Web Information in Human-Robot Dialogue Interactions [chapter]

Andreas Persson, Silvia Coradeschi, Balasubramanian Rajasekaran, Vamsi Krishna, Amy Loutfi, Marjan Alirezaie
2013 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
In particular the combination of smart home environments and relatively inexpensive robots can be a viable technological solutions for assisting elderly and persons with disability in their own home.  ...  The paper focuses on the creation and maintenance (anchoring) of the connection between the semantic information present in the dialogue with perceived physical objects in the home.  ...  Introduction Socially assistive robots in combination with smart home environments are increasingly considered as a possible solution for providing support to elderly and persons with disabilities [3]  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_36 fatcat:hngxwu66qne7litxsuhzlsbgwy

Challenges and Opportunities for Smart Homes Deployment in Developing Countries: A Case Study of the User Perspective in Kenya

Metto S. Kimutai, Omieno K. Kelvin, Ondulo M. Jasper
2022 OALib  
The objective of this paper is to assess the perception of users of smart homes on the enablers and challenges they face in the deployment of smart homes and seeks to identify opportunities that could  ...  A smart home refers to a habitation furnished with a communication network, sensors, household devices, and appliances that can be remotely identified, accessed, monitored, and controlled.  ...  due to varying customer needs, perceptions and expectations of the smart home.  ... 
doi:10.4236/oalib.1107679 fatcat:elqbamfcznc6xj7662qyuzorou

"It did not give me an option to decline": A Longitudinal Analysis of the User Experience of Security and Privacy in Smart Home Products

George Chalhoub, Martin J Kraemer, Norbert Nthala, Ivan Flechais
2021 Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems  
In order to reduce frustration and help fulfill the promise of smart homes, we need to explore the experience of security and privacy in situ.  ...  We analyze an ethnographic study observing six UK households over six months to present a longitudinal view of security and privacy user experiences in smart products.  ...  The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the  ... 
doi:10.1145/3411764.3445691 fatcat:exdhapmbfnaprdfiwh2ctv3er4

A Multi-Region Investigation of the Perceptions and Use of Smart Home Devices

Patrick Bombik, Tom Wenzel, Jens Grossklags, Sameer Patil
2022 Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies  
Smart Home Devices are household objects and appliances that are augmented with network connectivity and interactive capabilities.  ...  To address this gap, we compared perceptions and practices of people in three geographic regions regarding privacy and security matters related to Smart Home Devices.  ...  The content of the paper is the work of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. Attitudes and Preferences  ... 
doi:10.56553/popets-2022-0060 fatcat:l5iyqlz6praqzmshklk7v2usmy

More than Smart Speakers: Security and Privacy Perceptions of Smart Home Personal Assistants

Noura Abdi, Kopo M. Ramokapane, Jose M. Such
2019 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security  
, and shopping, through semi-structured interviews with SPA users.  ...  Users' understanding of the SPA ecosystem is often limited to their household and the SPA vendor at most, even when using third-party skills or managing other smart home devices.  ...  Skills provide users with functions such as the ability to play music, check weather updates, control other smart home devices and shopping.  ... 
dblp:conf/soups/AbdiRS19 fatcat:4ggm72pw35bf5con65xeiqgjku

Security and Privacy Concerns in the Adoption of IoT Smart Homes: A User-Centric Analysis

Tinashe Magara, Yousheng Zhou
2024 American Journal of Information Science and Technology  
The study embarked on a user-centric analysis, delving into the intricacies of security and privacy concerns in the adoption of Internet of Things smart homes.  ...  This implies that approximately 76.2% of the rationale behind individuals' decisions to either adopt or refrain from using IoT smart home devices, with a focus on security and privacy considerations  ...  The study underscores the importance of user experience and usability, factors that closely intersect with the security and privacy features of these devices.  ... 
doi:10.11648/j.ajist.20240801.11 fatcat:gsv44r6t6neqbb3ed5hsbvskwq

Use of Prediction Algorithms in Smart Homes

Aditi Dixit, Anjali Naik
2014 International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing  
Smart Homes' or 'Intelligent Homes' are capable in making smart or rational decisions and increase home automation. This is done to maximize inhabitant comfort and minimize operation cost.  ...  The effectiveness of the Prediction algorithms used is demonstrated ;making it clear how they prove to be a key component in the efficient implementation of a Smart Home architecture.  ...  When Ann leaves for work, the Smart Home secures the home and later that it places a grocery order for milk and bread.  ... 
doi:10.7763/ijmlc.2014.v4.405 fatcat:3rz5kztxcvcnxpuaepmaf4snyi

Preliminary Study of Adaptive Decision-Making System for Vocal Command in Smart Home

Alexis Brenon, Francois Portet, Michel Vacher
2016 2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)  
In smart homes, prediction and decision are often defined a priori and require tuning from the user, which can be tedious, and complex.  ...  However, these smart homes have the ability to analyze the user behavior and to modify their decisions automatically.  ...  INTRODUCTION The smart home aims to improve the user control and experience. To provide this enhanced control, these systems perceive their environment and make decisions about it.  ... 
doi:10.1109/ie.2016.49 dblp:conf/intenv/BrenonPV16 fatcat:vi2n4s2vhbb7hkz23gevshjl6a

Internet of Things: Smart Home Automation System using Raspberry Pi

2017 International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)  
This report represents the application of IoT for Smart Home Automation system which includes a Raspberry Pi as a processing unit for data which is extracted from various sub-systems like, Temperature  ...  With advance internet technology today not only we can access the information from anyplace, at any time, by any person, but we can also control and monitor various devices from anyplace, at any time,  ...  In this the accessed data is forwarded from perception layer to next layer. 3) Application layer: depending on required application like smart HAS, smart industry etc., this layer is the user end layer  ... 
doi:10.21275/art20164204 fatcat:vidre3lg4zg2tmggajaslbyr34

Innovation Inaction or In Action? The Role of User Experience in the Security and Privacy Design of Smart Home Cameras

George Chalhoub, Ivan Flechais, Norbert Nthala, Ruba Abu-Salma
2020 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security  
Prior work has explored different usable security and privacy solutions for smart homes; however, the applicability of user experience (UX) principles to security and privacy design is under-explored.  ...  Smart homes are under attack. Threats can harm both the security of these homes and the privacy of their inhabitants.  ...  The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the  ... 
dblp:conf/soups/ChalhoubFNA20 fatcat:zve42qpwcbgktn5mfnhll64bx4

PARA: Privacy Management and Control in Emerging IoT Ecosystems using Augmented Reality

Carlos Bermejo Fernandez, Lik Hang Lee, Petteri Nurmi, Pan Hui
2021 Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction  
The ubiquity of smart devices, combined with a lack of information about data garnered by them, make privacy a significant challenge for adopting smart devices.  ...  Ensuring users can safeguard their privacy without compromising the devices' functionality requires CCS CONCEPTS • Security and privacy → Usability in security and privacy; • Human-centered computing →  ...  This research has been supported in part by project 16214817 from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and the 5GEAR project (Grant No. 318927) and the FIT project (Grant No. 325570) funded by the  ... 
doi:10.1145/3462244.3479885 fatcat:cka7odvwlvccdibxq5a2jc3s6m

PowerCut and Obfuscator: An Exploration of the Design Space for Privacy-Preserving Interventions for Voice Assistants [article]

Varun Chandrasekaran, Suman Banerjee, Bilge Mutlu, Kassem Fawaz
2021 arXiv   pre-print
While work to date provides an understanding of user perceptions of these threats, limited research focuses on how we can mitigate these concerns, either through redesigning the smart speaker or through  ...  to the smart speaker.  ...  We would also like to thank Mariam Fawaz who assisted with the photographs of the interventions, and Yilong Li who assisted with the fabrication of Obfuscator.  ... 
arXiv:1812.00263v4 fatcat:eh7jzdmivvel7lxtgdlxs3c6oa

PowerCut and Obfuscator: An Exploration of the Design Space for Privacy-Preserving Interventions for Smart Speakers

Varun Chandrasekaran, Suman Banerjee, Bilge Mutlu, Kassem Fawaz
2021 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security  
Smart speakers also integrate with other devices to realize smart home applications. However, this convenience  ...  While work to date provides an understanding of user perceptions of these threats, limited research focuses on how we can mitigate these concerns, either through redesigning the smart speaker or through  ...  We would also like to thank Mariam Fawaz who assisted with the photographs of the interventions, and Yilong Li who assisted with the fabrication of Obfuscator.  ... 
dblp:conf/soups/ChandrasekaranB21 fatcat:oz5jxng6u5fc3jca5psfubljzu

A User Study to Evaluate a Web-based Prototype for Smart Home Internet of Things Device Management [article]

Leena Alghamdi, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Mamtaj Akter, Faisal Alghamdi, Pamela Wisniewski
2022 arXiv   pre-print
This paper provides an empirical examination of the privacy versus convenience trade-offs smart home users make when managing their IoT devices.  ...  We conducted a web-based survey and usability study with 43 participants who use IoT devices frequently to: 1) examine their smart home IoT usage patterns and privacy preferences, and 2) evaluate a web-based  ...  Additionally, smart home users often share their devices with trusted people who live outside of their home [27] .  ... 
arXiv:2204.07751v1 fatcat:t6qpcbpuzzaw5cdfwogwkmpytm

Towards Personalization of User Preferences in Partially Observable Smart Home Environments [article]

Shashi Suman, Francois Rivest, Ali Etemad
2022 arXiv   pre-print
The technologies used in smart homes have recently improved to learn the user preferences from feedback in order to enhance the user convenience and quality of experience.  ...  Thus, a smart home with a single optimal policy may fail to provide comfort when a new user with a different preference is integrated into the home.  ...  Previously in [26] , we simulated a series of experiments with a Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning based human model capable of learning activities and setting its thermal preferences in a smart home  ... 
arXiv:2112.00971v4 fatcat:xjytesqbkfbidnl5cmnzljhwgm
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