IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters

Desjardins, Audrey; Biggs, Heidi; Key, Cayla; Viny, Jeremy E.

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376342

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“…This recording mode is not in a discrete sense – for instance between a single device and device use – but in a relational assemblage. Observation extends to how space and other things in the home are co-located and co-generative of the meanings and practices associated with devices and data ( Desjardins et al, 2020 ; Moores, 2012 ; Richardson et al, 2017 ; Strengers et al, 2019 ). Informing this focus is work on the ‘digital mundane’ ( Leszczynski, 2019 ; Pink et al, 2017b ) and the more-than-digital landscape of technology use, or ‘non-media-centric media studies’ ( Krajina et al, 2014 ).…”

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“…It thereby directed our attention towards the relational and affective aspects of technologies and their incorporation into the mundane routines of domestic life. To put this focus into ethnographic practice, we drew from the ‘home tour’ approach used by researchers interested in digital technologies in the domestic setting ( Desjardins et al, 2020 ; Kennedy et al, 2015a ; Nansen et al, 2011 , 2015 ; Pink & Leder Mackley, 2014 ). In this approach, participants, inviting members of the research team into their home, lead a tour highlighting the spatialities of where digital devices are sited or travel into and how other residents use them as a household.…”

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Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Watson

Lupton

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing projects requiring face-to-face fieldwork. An exploration of engaging in what we term ‘agile research’ in such circumstances can offer novel methodological insights for researching the social world. In this article, we discuss the changes we made to our ethnographic fieldwork in response to the introduction of a national lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The ‘Living with Personal Data’ project, based in Sydney, Australia, and designed well before the advent of COVID-19, explores a diverse range of people’s feelings, practices and understandings concerning home-based digital devices and the personal digital data generated with their use. Using a video ethnography ‘home tour’ and an elicitation technique involving hand-drawn maps of people’s homes, digital devices and the personal data generated with and through these devices, this approach was designed to elicit the sensory, affective and relational elements of people’s digital device and personal data use at home. The fieldwork had just commenced when stay-at-home and physical distancing orders were suddenly introduced. Our article builds on and extends a growing body of literature on conducting fieldwork in the difficult conditions of the extended COVID-19 crisis by detailing our experiences of very quickly converting an ethnographic study that was planned to be in-person to a remote approach. We describe the adaptations we made to the project using video-call software and discuss the limits and opportunities presented by this significant modification.

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Section: Background and Original Study Designmentioning

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Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Watson

Lupton

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Although home IoT are themselves lively efecting things, current instantiations make it difcult to noticeably perceive their relational efects [23], fueling "the image of dead or thoroughly instrumentalized matter [which] feeds human hubris and our earthdestroying fantasies of conquest and consumption" [12:ix]. Dominant visions (we use the term both literally and fguratively) of IoT are at once thoroughly predictable yet utterly opaque.…”

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Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective

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Browne

Taylor

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Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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As the internet is increasingly embedded in the everyday things in our homes, we notice a need for greater focus on the role care plays in those relationships-and therefore an opportunity to realize unseen potential in reimagining home Internet of Things (IoT).In this paper we report on our inquiry of home dwellers' relationships to caring for their everyday things and homes (referred to as thingcare). Findings from our design ethnography reveal four thematic qualities of their relationships to thingcare: Care Spectacle, Care Liminality, Ontological Braiding, and Care Condition. Using these themes as touchstones, we co-speculated to produce four speculative IoT concepts to explore what care as a design ethic might look like for IoT and refect on nascent opportunities and challenges for domestic IoT design. We conclude by considering structures of power and privilege embedded within care practices that critically open new design imaginaries for IoT. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing; • Human computer interaction (HCI);

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“…Desjardins et al [51] observe different relationships with data in smart homes, and how data is visualised within the home by occupants, developing how data is part of experiencing the home and daily life. They see 'IoT data not as an undefined, ephemeral, position-less, and singular mass (although it might be conceptualized this way): these data are, in fact, of a home, in a home, and part of unique domestic assemblages which are important to recognize and honour when designing for them.'…”

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On the principle of accountability: challenges for smart homes and cybersecurity

Urquhart

Chen

2021

Privacy by Design for the Internet of Things: Building Accountability and Security

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This chapter introduces the 'Accountability Principle' and its role in data protection (DP) governance. We focus on what accountability means in the context of cybersecurity management in smart homes, considering the EU General Data Protection Law (GDPR) requirements to secure personal data. This discussion sits against the backdrop of two key new developments in data protection law. Firstly, the law is moving into the home, due to narrowing of the so called 'household exemption'. Concurrently, household occupants may now have legal responsibilities to comply with the GDPR, as they find themselves jointly responsible for compliance, as they are possibly held to determine the means and purposes of data collection with IoT device vendors. As a complex socio-technical space, we consider the interactions between accountability requirements and the competencies of this new class of 'domestic data controllers' (DDC). Specifically, we consider the value and limitations of edge-based security analytics to manage smart home cybersecurity risks, reviewing a range of prototypes and studies of their use. We also reflect on interpersonal power dynamics in the domestic setting e.g. device control; existing social practices around privacy and security management in smart homes; and usability issues that may hamper DDCs ability to rely on such solutions. We conclude by reflecting on 1) the need for collective security management in homes and 2) the increasingly complex divisions of responsibility in smart homes between device users, account holders, IoT device/software/firmware vendors, and third parties.

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IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters

Cited by 40 publications

References 38 publications

Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods

Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective

On the principle of accountability: challenges for smart homes and cybersecurity

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