Complying with the GDPR when vulnerable people use smart devices

Designing Safe Smart Home Systems for Vulnerable People

Designing assistive technological solutions for people with disabilities and older people is fraught with problems due to the number of agencies involved. These problems are compounded by the lack of understanding that can exist between the engineers and the health staff. This lack of understanding can develop into extreme delays in installing the technology and the needs of the person with dis...

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

Are People Risk Vulnerable?

The paper reports on a within-subject experiment, with substantial monetary incentives, designed to test wether or not people are risk-vulnerable. In the experiment, subjects face a simple portfolio choice problem in which they have to invest part of their wealth in a safe and a risky asset. We elicit risk vulnerability by observing each subject’s portfolio choice in two different contexts that...

Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Goal: Smart People, Not Smart Homes

At MIT, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the House_n Consortium is studying how to create pervasive computing environments for the home. We are developing technologies and design strategies that use contextaware sensing to empower people by providing information when and where decisions and actions can be made. Contrary to many visions of future home environments in the literature,...