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ABACUS: audio based access control utility for smarthomes

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Abrar S. Alrumayh,

Sarah M. Lehman,

Chiu C. TanAuthors Info & Claims

SEC '19: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing

Pages 395 - 400

https://doi.org/10.1145/3318216.3363376

Published: 07 November 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Home Voice Assistants (HVAs), like the Amazon Echo, are increasingly being used to control devices in a smarthome. This paper presents ABACUS, an audio based access control utility for smarthomes. ABACUS is designed to be run on a HVA, and makes use of the sounds in the home to provide additional context information to support richer access control rules. ABACUS also includes a pictorial utility to help non-expert users configure these rules.

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Minder BWolf PBaldauf MVerma S(2023)Voice assistants in private households: a conceptual framework for future research in an interdisciplinary fieldHumanities and Social Sciences Communications10.1057/s41599-023-01615-z10:1Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01615-z
Sikder ABabun LCelik ZAksu HMcDaniel PKirda EUluagac A(2022)Who’s Controlling My Device? Multi-User Multi-Device-Aware Access Control System for Shared Smart Home EnvironmentACM Transactions on Internet of Things10.1145/35435133:4(1-39)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543513
Alrumayh ALehman STan C(2021)Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Leaks from Third-Party Smart Speaker Apps2021 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)10.1109/CNS53000.2021.9705042(1-9)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/CNS53000.2021.9705042

Index Terms

ABACUS: audio based access control utility for smarthomes
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Sound-based input / output
    2. Interaction techniques
      1. Auditory feedback
  2. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Ubiquitous computing

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Minder BWolf PBaldauf MVerma S(2023)Voice assistants in private households: a conceptual framework for future research in an interdisciplinary fieldHumanities and Social Sciences Communications10.1057/s41599-023-01615-z10:1Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01615-z
Sikder ABabun LCelik ZAksu HMcDaniel PKirda EUluagac A(2022)Who’s Controlling My Device? Multi-User Multi-Device-Aware Access Control System for Shared Smart Home EnvironmentACM Transactions on Internet of Things10.1145/35435133:4(1-39)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543513
Alrumayh ALehman STan C(2021)Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Leaks from Third-Party Smart Speaker Apps2021 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS)10.1109/CNS53000.2021.9705042(1-9)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/CNS53000.2021.9705042

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