Cristina Paupini will defend her thesis for the PhD program in Social Sciences, with specialization in Business Administration, Innovation and Governance with "Negotiating Privacy in the Smart Home. Risk, trust, and agency in the Age of Domestic Internet of Things".
The trial lecture lasts from 13:00-13:45.
The title of the trial lecture is "How can different stakeholders beyond users (policy makers, data protection authorities, technology companies and developers of IoT devices, maybe civil society, journalists and activists) make IoT and smart home technologies more privacy-friendly through technical and social strategies?".
The candidate will defend her thesis at 14:30
The public defence and trial lecture will also be streamed (oslomet.zoom.us).
Webinar ID: 631 1816 5268
Passcode: 2026
The ordinary opponents are:
The head of the public defence is dean Oddgeir Osland, Oslo Metropolitan University.
The supervisors have been:
The proliferation of domestic Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has introduced new dynamics into a traditionally private space: the home. As digital infrastructures increasingly mediate daily domestic routines, questions emerge around data protection, user agency, and socio-technical inclusion, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. While domestic Internet of Things devices promise enhanced comfort, automation, and control, they also introduce complex privacy risks, particularly when integrated in diverse households that include persons with disabilities, with limited digital competence or older people.
This dissertation investigates how users interact with domestic IoT in relation to privacy and explores how they can be supported in developing agency over data-related. The contributions of this study are manifold, from highlighting how relevant privacy-related theories are intertwined and influence each other, to suggesting practical solutions for the improvement of domestic IoT user’s agency on privacy protection and presenting methodological strategies for digital ethnographic fieldwork and participatory design practices.