Humanizing the Internet of Things - Toward a Human-centered Internet-and-web of Things

Abstract

This paper envisions how the Internet of Things (IoT) complements the Internet of People to build a humancentered Internet-and-Web of Things. The Internet of Things should go beyond the Machine-to-Machine paradigm and must include people in its foundation, resulting in a "Humanized Internet of Things (H-IoT)". Starting from a relevant work of Fiske, this paper defines how the Human-centred Internet of Things can embed the Fiske patterns in this particular domain. An analysis of some of existing IoT platforms and projects is also presented with the aim to analyse how real implementations are in the same direction of such social patterns. 3 HUMANIZING THE INTERNET AND THE WEB OF THINGS In earlier IoT research, its related definitions, scientific papers and scenarios remarked the 498 Pintus A., Carboni D., Serra A. and Manchinu A.. Humanizing the Internet of Things-Toward a Human-centered Internet-and-web of Things.

Tracking the Evolution of the Internet of Things Concept Across Different Application Domains

“…Integrating the notions of the IoT, IoP and SIoT allows to present the idea of a Humanized Internet of Things (HIoT), which enables interactions between communicating entities: smart things and people, the physical world and the digital one [57]. …”

“…He compares sensing to the human five primary senses, thinking to the way the human brain processes information, and acting to interaction, which represents a difference to the concept of autonomy proposed by others [ 24 ]. Despite proposing a definition mostly around the interconnection of objects, Pintus et al support the need for interaction between people and things, which they present as a humanized view of the IoT [ 57 ].…”

“…The human perspective of the social aspect of the IoT is represented in the Internet of People (IoP), envisaged as people becoming part of ubiquitous intelligent networks having the potential to seamlessly connect, interact and exchange information about themselves and their social context and environment [ 73 ]. Integrating the notions of the IoT, IoP and SIoT allows to present the idea of a Humanized Internet of Things (HIoT), which enables interactions between communicating entities: smart things and people, the physical world and the digital one [ 57 ].…”

A Provably Secure Lightweight Subtree-Based Short Signature Scheme With Fuzzy User Data Sharing for Human-Centered IoT

“…The problems in HC-IoT is to design, deploy, and support various IoT components in the context of human interpretation and suitability to adapt the IoT ecosystem. Due to humanize IoT [9], [10] the challenge exist to provide security and privacy of data exchange amongst the IoT devices, specifically HC-IoT. Moreover, popularity of IoT is increasing over the period and hence to provide all essential IoT security measures such as confidentiality, security, privacy, and data protection need to be carefully handle [11], [12].…”

Design and Implementation of a Cloud-Based Platform for Unleashing the Personal and Communal Internet of Things

“…Instead they believe it is only the organizations that are gaining from their data. A recent work [5] remarked about the urgency for the IoT to go beyond the Machine-to-Machine paradigm to include people in its foundation. In that paper, authors project the Fiskes's Four Elementary Forms of sociality [6] to IoT, in order to define a Humanized Internet of Things (H-IoT); from the aims of this work considering the Communal Sharing and Equality Matching patterns (reported in Figure 1) is interesting in particular as people in a community collaborate to fulfill a shared goal, smart managing their IoT and related connected devices.…”