Richmond Wong’s article, “Broadening Privacy and Surveillance: Eliciting Interconnected Values With a Scenarios Workbook on Smart Home Cameras,” received an honorable mention paper award at the recently concluded Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2023).
In the paper, Wong and co-authors created speculative scenarios to explore how smart home cameras might lead to surveillance between “primary” users who control the cameras and “non-primary users” who don’t. For example, a parent using cameras on a drone to watch their children, or a landlord using smart cameras to strictly enforce parts of a lease. Participants looking at the scenarios reflected on multiple conceptions of privacy, connecting it to other social values. This suggests the need to broaden our conceptions of privacy when doing smart home research.