The Use of Smart Contracts in Increasing the Adoption of Smart Home Devices

Khutso Lebea, Wai Sze Leung

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Abstract

According to the 2022 Digital Quality of Life, survey conducted by Surfshark, users from countries such as the UK and the US are sceptical about consumer IoT devices, with 63% of participants saying they find smart devices invasive in their collection of data and 28% of participants said they would not own a smart device due to security concerns. In the same year, over 900 US citizens were surveyed about how they feel about smart home devices, and 73% of the participants had concerns about smart home devices. The concerns are privacy, spying and monitoring, security, targeted marketing, and device hacking [1]. This paper outlines a birds-eye view of a framework intended to allow personal information collected by smart home devices to be stored in the control of the information owner instead of the service provider. With a specific focus on the Smart Contractual Layer, which is responsible for data access control.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHCI International 2024 Posters - 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2024, Proceedings
EditorsConstantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona, Stavroula Ntoa, Gavriel Salvendy
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages297-302
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783031621093
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2024 - Washington, United States
Duration: 29 Jun 20244 Jul 2024

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume2120 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period29/06/244/07/24

Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • Privacy by design
  • Smart home

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Mathematics

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