Various smart services and technologies have been developed to support older adults' well-
ness, make their daily tasks easier, and enhance their overall quality of life. When people …

Matter is an open-source, royalty-free connectivity standard developed by the Connectivity
Standards Alliance (CSA-IoT). It aims to unify smart home devices and increase their …

Smart speakers with voice assistants, like Amazon Echo and Google Home, provide benefits
and convenience but also raise privacy concerns due to their continuously listening …

Voice has become a widespread and commercially viable interaction mechanism with the
introduction of voice assistants (VAs), such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Google …

Smart home Internet of Things (IoT) devices are rapidly increasing in popularity, with more
households including Internet-connected devices that continuously monitor user activities. In …

From an accessibility perspective, voice-controlled, home-based intelligent personal
assistants (IPAs) have the potential to greatly expand speech interaction beyond dictation …

The Internet of Things is becoming increasingly widespread in home environments.
Consumers are transforming their homes into smart homes, with internet-connected sensors …

Over the past two years the Ubicomp vision of ambient voice assistants, in the form of smart
speakers such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, has been integrated into tens of …

Adoption of commercial smart home devices is rapidly increasing, allowing in-situ research
in people's homes. As these technologies are deployed in shared spaces, we seek to …

Smart homes face unique security, privacy, and usability challenges because they are multi-
user, multi-device systems that affect the physical environment of all inhabitants of the home …