Designing tangible interfaces such as PrivacyCube and PriviFy to help households understand and manage how smart-home devices handle their data.
The balance between protecting user privacy while providing usable IoT experiences is a key challenge for smart-home product designers. Traditional notification models assume the presence of screens; in IoT, screens are rare or very small. We explore how non-technical occupants can understand what data is collected about the spaces they inhabit and how to express their privacy preferences.
This project focuses on tangible interfaces—PrivacyCube and the PriviFy toolkit—that act as enhanced privacy notices. They visualise how smart-home devices manage data and help people make informed decisions. We review notification methods, design and prototype tangible devices, and evaluate how these artefacts affect privacy awareness in shared domestic environments.
Bayan Al Muhander, Omer Rana, Nalin Arachchilage, and Charith Perera, *PriviFy: Designing Tangible Interfaces for IoT Privacy Configuration*, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2024, pp. 217–218.
Bayan Al Muhander, Omer Rana, Nalin Arachchilage, and Charith Perera, *PrivacyCube: A Tangible Device for Improving Privacy Awareness in IoT*, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2022, pp. 109–110.
Bayan Al Muhander, Jason Wiese, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera, *Interactive Privacy Management: Towards Enhancing Privacy Awareness and Control in Internet of Things*, Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2023), Anaheim, CA, USA.
Bayan Al Muhander, Jason Wiese, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera, *Interactive Privacy Management: Towards Enhancing Privacy Awareness and Control in Internet of Things*, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Volume 4, Issue 3, Article 18, August 2023, pp. 1–36.