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Controlling Security Rules Using Natural Dialogue: an Application to Smart Home Care

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Stanley Goffinet,

Donatien Schmitz,

Igor Zavalyshyn,

Etienne RiviereAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp/ISWC '21 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 194 - 197

https://doi.org/10.1145/3460418.3479331

Published: 24 September 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Smart home systems have revolutionized the way we interact with our living environment, but the concerns over sensor data privacy and security have become one of the major barriers to their widespread adoption. Despite a considerable research effort in designing secure access control mechanisms, the end users are still reluctant to use those either due to the complexity of the interfaces or because they do not have sufficient skills. For the elderly users the problem gets worse. Making the right security choices is increasingly more difficult for this group of users. To assist the elderly users in defining their access control policies, we design a dialogue-based system which allows to create new security rules or update existing ones in a simple and intelligible way using natural language and familiar terms.

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