Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment
In this paper we present a framework for addressing privacy issues raised by the monitoring of assisted living smart house environments. In home environments, the conflict between the goals of the surveillance, and the private nature of the home, raises the issue of occupant privacy. This issue need...
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| author | Moncrieff, Simon Venkatesh, Svetha West, Geoff |
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| description | In this paper we present a framework for addressing privacy issues raised by the monitoring of assisted living smart house environments. In home environments, the conflict between the goals of the surveillance, and the private nature of the home, raises the issue of occupant privacy. This issue needs to be addressed if applications are to be accepted by the occupant. We identify four key properties required for the design of privacy sensitive ubiquitous computing applications. Subsequently, we develop a dynamic and flexible method for implementing privacy measures through controlling access to data, and an interface to provide feedback to the occupant, enabling them to control the implemented privacy measures. We form a generic framework for implementing privacy sensitive ubiquitous computing applications based on previous applications within the field. This framework was then extended and used to develop a specific framework for a privacy sensitive smart house. The approach proposed in the framework dynamically applies privacy measures to multi-modal data according to the situation, or context, of the environment. We further test an implementation of the privacy measures, and detail methods to implement feedback and control. The approach aims to decrease the invasiveness of the surveillance, while retaining the purpose of the assisted living environment. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-126782017-09-13T14:57:33Z Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment Moncrieff, Simon Venkatesh, Svetha West, Geoff Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM) In this paper we present a framework for addressing privacy issues raised by the monitoring of assisted living smart house environments. In home environments, the conflict between the goals of the surveillance, and the private nature of the home, raises the issue of occupant privacy. This issue needs to be addressed if applications are to be accepted by the occupant. We identify four key properties required for the design of privacy sensitive ubiquitous computing applications. Subsequently, we develop a dynamic and flexible method for implementing privacy measures through controlling access to data, and an interface to provide feedback to the occupant, enabling them to control the implemented privacy measures. We form a generic framework for implementing privacy sensitive ubiquitous computing applications based on previous applications within the field. This framework was then extended and used to develop a specific framework for a privacy sensitive smart house. The approach proposed in the framework dynamically applies privacy measures to multi-modal data according to the situation, or context, of the environment. We further test an implementation of the privacy measures, and detail methods to implement feedback and control. The approach aims to decrease the invasiveness of the surveillance, while retaining the purpose of the assisted living environment. 2007 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12678 10.1145/1291233.1291389 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM) restricted |
| spellingShingle | Moncrieff, Simon Venkatesh, Svetha West, Geoff Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment |
| title | Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment |
| title_full | Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment |
| title_fullStr | Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment |
| title_short | Privacy and the Access of Information in a Smart House Environment |
| title_sort | privacy and the access of information in a smart house environment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12678 |