PrivacyHub: A Functional Tangible and Digital Ecosystem for Interoperable Smart Home Privacy Awareness and Control

要旨

Hubs are at the core of most smart homes. Modern cross-ecosystem protocols and standards enable smart home hubs to achieve interoperability across devices, offering the unique opportunity to integrate universally available smart home privacy awareness and control features. To date, such privacy features mainly focus on individual products or prototypical research artifacts. We developed a cross-ecosystem hub featuring a tangible dashboard and a digital web application to deepen our understanding of how smart home users interact with functional privacy features. The ecosystem allows users to control the connectivity states of their devices and raises awareness by visualizing device positions, states, and data flows. We deployed the ecosystem in six households for one week and found that it increased participants' perceived control, awareness, and understanding of smart home privacy. We further found distinct differences between tangible and digital mechanisms. Our findings highlight the value of cross-ecosystem hubs for effective privacy management.

著者
Maximiliane Windl
LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Philipp Thalhammer
LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
David Müller
LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Albrecht Schmidt
LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Sebastian S.. Feger
TH Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713517

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713517

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Smart Home and Buildings

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2025-04-29 18:00:00
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