For an improved user experience in smart homes, there is a need to enhance the current
interaction methods by embedding control interfaces in everyday household objects …

This paper explores how personal attributes, such as age, gender, technological expertise,
or “need for touch”, correlate with people's preferences for properties of tangible privacy …

This paper explores how personal attributes, such as age, gender, technological expertise,
or “need for touch”, correlate with people's preferences for properties of tangible privacy …

Smart home applications aim to increase convenience, yet often require authentication to
protect sensitive data. This is non-trivial: effortful authentication contradicts intended …

Boredom while doing homework is a common problem faced by young school students. This
can affect their learning progress and achievements. On the other hand, toddlers and young …

Authentication (eg, entering a password) is frequently perceived as an annoying obstacle
when interacting with computational devices, but still essential to protect sensitive data from …

In the 21 st century, with active policy support, the smart hardware industry ushered in rapid
development of the Internet of things, big data, and other emerging technologies, which has …

In the era of ubiquitous computing we are currently experiencing, we no longer interact with
single centralized machines, but mostly use multiple, networked smart devices. Such …

This research proposes an IoT avatar to communicate with users by representing various
objects in real space as avatars. The IoT avatar is realized by attaching an Internet …

In today's highly connected world, the internet has revolutionized various aspects of life,
making the world feel smaller and bringing people closer together. The emergence of the …