“You offer privacy like you offer tea”: Investigating Mechanisms for Improving Guest Privacy in IoT-Equipped Households

• DOI: 10.56553/popets-2022-0115
• Publication Date: 2022-08-31T17:28:44Z
• Authors: Karola Marky; Nina Gerber; Michelle Gabriela...; Mohamed Khamis; Max Mühlhäuser
• Keywords: Privacy Protection; Value (mathematics); Private space

IoT devices are becoming more common and prevalent in private households. Since guests can be present IoT-equipped households, pose considerable privacy risks to them. In this paper, we an in-depth evaluation of protection for considering the perspectives hosts guests. First, interviewed 21 device owners about four classes mechanisms obtained from literature social aspects. Second, conducted online survey (N=264) that investigates perspective From our results, learn should not introduce threats require low resources. Further, keep control over their aesthetics living spaces. Guests, however, value feedback status which interfere with aesthetics. Privacy rather foster collaboration impact visit guest too severely. We use results identify a design space