User-centric IoT: challenges and perspectives

Wafa Abdelghani (1) , Corinne Amel Zayani (2) , Ikram Amous (2) , Florence Sèdes (1)

1 IRIT-SIG - Systèmes d’Informations Généralisées
2 MIRACL - Multimedia, InfoRmation systems and Advanced Computing Laboratory

The Internet of Things (IoT), this emerging technology connecting everyone, and everyone’s things’, is not about objects, gadgets, databases, applications and profits to be made from it, but about people, it enriches. Researchers, developers, industries, telecommunication companies, and scientific communities have been interested in this paradigm and have proposed different solutions from different perspectives. They are mainly focused on the technical level, like performance, interoperability, integration, etc. However, whenever use cases are targeting human users, the focus must not be merely on these sides, but on human factors as well. Thus, it is essential to apply a user-centric approach allowing identification of application-specific features and understanding users needs, motivations and beliefs. This survey aims at encouraging other IoT system developers and researchers to pay attention to the relationship between people and IoT systems. We emphasize the value of adopting a user-centric vision. The goal is not to provide solutions, but rather to raise the right issues.

Mots clés: Social Internet of Things; Social Cyberspace; Internet of People; User centric Internet of Things; Internet of Things

Domaines: Web

Wafa Abdelghani, Corinne Amel Zayani, Ikram Amous, Florence Sèdes. User-centric IoT: challenges and perspectives. Twelfth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2018), Jun 2019, Athens, Greece. pp.27-34. ⟨hal-02299242⟩