Shola Olabode
Complex online harms and the smart home: A scoping review
Olabode, Shola; Owens, Rebecca; Zhang, Viana Nijia; Copilah-Ali, Jehana; Kolomeets, Maxim; Wu, Han; Malviya, Shrikant; Markeviciute, Karolina; Spiliotopoulos, Tasos; Neesham, Cristina; Shi, Lei; Chambers, Deborah
Authors
Rebecca Owens
Viana Nijia Zhang
Jehana Copilah-Ali
Maxim Kolomeets
Han Wu
Dr Shrikant Malviya shrikant.malviya@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Karolina Markeviciute karolina.markeviciute2@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
Tasos Spiliotopoulos
Cristina Neesham
Lei Shi
Deborah Chambers
Abstract
Background:
Technological advances in the smart home have created new opportunities for supporting digital citizens’ well-being and facilitating their empowerment but have enabled new types of complex online harms to develop. Recent statistics have indicated that ‘smart’ technology ownership increases yearly, driven by lower costs and increased accessibility. Research on smart homes has also grown, focusing on technology perspectives at the expense of a user-centric approach sensitive to the smart home’s harms, risks, and vulnerabilities.
Objective:
This scoping review addresses the information gap by underscoring the scope of literature that exists regarding complex online harms, vulnerabilities, and risks associated with smart home technologies and citizens’ agency. The goal is to understand the state of knowledge, gaps in the literature, and areas for future study. The importance and originality of this paper lie in its interdisciplinary review and approach. It is hoped that this research will contribute to a deeper understanding of complex online harms in the smart home.
Design:
Three online databases were utilised to identify papers published between 2017 and 2022, from which we selected 235 publications written in English that addressed harms, risks, vulnerabilities, and agency in the smart home context. This allowed us to map contemporary literature to reveal significant gaps in our understanding of the complex online harms affecting smart home users and identify opportunities for further research.
Results:
This review identified emerging themes of ‘risks’, ‘vulnerabilities’, and ‘harms’ in that order of frequency within the literature on smart homes. The usage of terms is skewed towards computing science and information security, which comprised the majority of the literature at 54.6%. Human–computer interaction papers contributed 24.4%, while social sciences accounted for 16.2%.
Conclusion:
Risks, harms and vulnerabilities within smart home ecosystems and IoTs are ongoing issues with complexities that necessitate research. Privacy, security, and well-being are key themes that embody the scope of complex harms affecting smart home devices in the broad literature. This review establishes disciplinary research gaps, especially in user-centred perspectives, due to a heavy technology focus in the existing literature. Therefore, further research is needed to address emergent risks, harms and vulnerabilities of smart home devices and understand how user agency and autonomy can complement the design, interface, and socio-technical aspects of smart home systems.
Citation
Olabode, S., Owens, R., Zhang, V. N., Copilah-Ali, J., Kolomeets, M., Wu, H., …Chambers, D. (2023). Complex online harms and the smart home: A scoping review. Future Generation Computer Systems, 149, 664-678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2023.08.019
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 14, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 18, 2023 |
Publication Date | 2023-12 |
Deposit Date | Jan 16, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 16, 2024 |
Journal | Future Generation Computer Systems |
Print ISSN | 0167-739X |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 149 |
Pages | 664-678 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2023.08.019 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2147947 |
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