Sustainability Calculus in Adopting Smart Speakers—Personalized Services and Privacy Risks

Privacy-preserving Cooperative Services for Smart Traffic

Exploring Consumers' Attitudes of Smart TV Related Privacy Risks

A number of privacy risks are inherent in the Smart TV ecosystem. It is likely that many consumers are unaware of these privacy risks. Alternatively, they might be aware but consider the privacy risks acceptable. In order to explore this, we carried out an online survey with 200 participants to determine whether consumers were aware of Smart TV related privacy risks. The responses revealed a me...

On Sustainability of Context-Aware Services Among Heterogeneous Smart Spaces

Most of ambient intelligence studies have tried to employ inductive methods (e.g., data mining) to discover useful information and patterns from data streams on sensor networks. However, since the spaces have been sharing their information with each other, it is difficult for such inductive methods to conduct the discovery process from the sensor streams intermixed from the heterogeneous sensor...

Sustainability and Smart Technology

Today’s cities have attracted the largest share of the global human population and have become symbols of advancements in knowledge and technology. They have however also begun to represent a lifestyle detached from nature and geared towards a high level of consumption. To make cities sustainable, they need to provide better living conditions for everybody, access to resource availability and s...

User perceptions of privacy risks regarding location-based services

Location-based Services (LBS) are widespread nowadays and with the rise of smartphones and other mobile-devices they are expected to be used in ever more applications by ever more users. There are clear opportunities this technology provides, nevertheless there are always privacy concerns when it comes to the identification of an individual’s location. This paper provides an overview of user pr...