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Re-thinking smartness: designing more ethical connected devices for the home

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Modern smart devices are capable of incredible things: making life easier, more enjoyable, and more secure. But this 'smartness' often comes at the cost of devices harvesting data from the home, constraining how we use them, and changing the ways we relate to each other. This thesis explores what it means for a device to be smart, the ethical concerns that smartness causes, and ways that we might re-think smartness to better support people's needs and values. It does so using four lenses o...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
Research group:
Human Centred Computing
Oxford college:
Kellogg College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-0256-6740

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
Research group:
Human Centred Computing
Oxford college:
Kellogg College
Role:
Supervisor
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford
Language:
English
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Deposit date:
2021-07-23

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