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From Maturity Models to Ground Truth: Reconciling Cybersecurity Capacity Frameworks with Household-Level Governance Realities in the Global South
Wael Albayaydh, Ivan Flechais
National cybersecurity and digital-governance capacity frameworks, most prominently the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations (CMM), shape hundreds of millions of dolla…
Regulation, Power, and the Compliance 1 Paradox: A Longitudinal Study of Smart Homes
Wael Albayaydh, Ivan Flechais, Rui Zhao
Smart home technologies are becoming increasingly embedded in domestic environments, yet their implications for power, privacy, and inequality remain insufficiently understood, par…
From Rights to Rites: Expectations Management in Smart-Home AI
Varad Vishwarupe, Ivan Flechais, Marina Jirotka +1
Domestic voice assistants and smart-home devices are increasingly embedded in everyday routines, yet their ethics are often treated as an afterthought or delegated to compliance te…
To LLM, or Not to LLM: How Designers and Developers Navigate LLMs as Tools or Teammates
Varad Vishwarupe, Ivan Flechais, Nigel Shadbolt +1
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into design and development workflows, yet decisions about their use are rarely binary or purely technical. We report findi…
AI For Privacy in Smart Homes: Exploring How Leveraging AI-Powered Smart Devices Enhances Privacy Protection
Wael Albayaydh, Ivan Flechais, Rui Zhao +1
Privacy concerns and fears of unauthorized access in smart home devices often stem from misunderstandings about how data is collected, used, and protected. This study explores how…