@inproceedings{368bdaae499d4fb38a4796d86d293e93,
title = "How to Increase Smart Home Security and Privacy Risk Perception",
abstract = "With continuous technological advancements, our homes become smarter by interconnecting more and more devices. Smart homes provide many advantages. However, they also introduce new privacy and security risks. Recent studies show that only a few people are aware of abstract risks, and most people are not aware of specific negative consequences. We developed a privacy and security awareness intervention for people who want to inform themselves about risks in the smart home con. Our intervention is based on research literature on risk perception and feedback from both lay users and security and privacy experts. We evaluated our intervention regarding its influence on participants' perceived threat, privacy attitude, motivation to avoid threats, willingness to pay, and time commitment to configure protective measures. The results of this evaluation show a significant increase for all these aspects. We also compared our intervention to information that users could obtain during an Internet search on the topic. In this comparison, our intervention evokes a significantly higher perceived threat and privacy attitude. It showed no significant difference for the other three scales. We discuss our findings in light of related work.",
keywords = "risk intervention, security privacy risk perception, smart home",
author = "Reyhan Duezguen and Peter Mayer and Benjamin Berens and Christopher Beckmann and Lukas Aldag and Mattia Mossano and Melanie Volkamer and Thorsten Strufe",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1109/TrustCom53373.2021.00138",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "997--1004",
editor = "Liang Zhao and Neeraj Kumar and Hsu, {Robert C.} and Deqing Zou",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 20th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2021",
address = "United States",
note = "20th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2021 ; Conference date: 20-10-2021 Through 22-10-2021",
}