Gnomes in the Park at CHI 2018
4 May 2018
CASA showcases our Internet of Things research in Montreal, Canada.
The IoT in the Park stream at CASA recently presented a poster in the Late Breaking Work section of the conference in Montreal, Canada. The CHI conference is on âComputer, Human Interactionâ, or in this case, human, gnome interaction as the title of the paper is, âTalking to GNOMEs: Exploring Privacy and Trust Around Internet of Things Devices in a Public Spaceâ.
You can view a short video about the project .
Talking to GNOMEs: Exploring Privacy and Trust Around Internet of Things Devices in a Public Space
Authors: Richard Milton, Boyana Buyuklieva, Duncan Hay, Andy Hudson-Smith and Steven Gray, all authors from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis University College London WC1E 6BT.
CHIâ18 Extended Abstracts, April 21â26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-5621-3/18/04.Â
Abstract
Privacy issues can be difïŹcult for end-users to understand and are therefore a key concern for information-sharing systems. This paper describes a deployment of ïŹfteen Bluetooth-beacon-enabled âcreaturesâ spread across Londonâs Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which initiate conversations on mobile phones in their vicinity via push notiïŹcations. Playing on the common assumption that neutral public settings promote anonymity, usersâ willingness to converse with personiïŹed chatbots is used as a proxy for understanding their inclination to share personal and potentially disclosing information. Each creature is linked to a conversational agent that asks for usersâ memories and their responses are then shared with other creatures in the network. This paper presents the design of an interactive device used to test usersâ awareness of how their information propagates to others.