Human Factors in Security and Privacy in IoT (HFSP-IoT)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Informatics welcomes submissions on the topic of security and privacy in the context of IoT, while focusing on the human aspect. IoT includes smart homes, which include devices such as digital assistance (e.g., Google Home and Alexa) and smart health, including devices such as fitness trackers. There are several aspects that are of high interest for this Special Issue. These aspects include:

• Investigations into the deployment of these solutions, especially studies related to the acceptability of these solutions.;
• Research into how humans are expected to interact with IoT devices to secure them, how they can be compromised,
• Research into how humans are expected to configure IoT devices to preserve their privacy, and perceptions of privacy-related IoT behaviours.
• Studies that reveal new security vulnerabilities or privacy violations facilitated by the design of the “human–IoT” interface.
• Studies on user awareness and perception of potential security and privacy threats and risks

We would like to include some solutions in our Special Issue: Those that address vulnerabilities and potential privacy invasiveness of IoT devices. Our overall theme is IoT, and we will accept a wide range of papers related to either security or privacy of IoT devices, either in or out of the home.

We encourage authors to submit their original research articles, surveys, reviews, and viewpoint articles labeled as position papers. This Special Issue welcomes applications, theories, models, and frameworks—whether conceptual, analytical, prescriptive, predictive, design-related, or otherwise—that are concerned with (but not limited to) the following topics as they relate to HFSP-IoT.

Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer
Prof. Dr. Karen Renaud
Guest Editors

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