Trusted Things & Communities: Understanding & Enabling A Trusted IoT Ecosystem
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Aberdeen
Department Name: Computing Science
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept refers to the seamless integration of physical objects, sensors and mobile devices onto the Internet. The IoT encompasses many different technologies, services and standards and is seen by many as the cornerstone of the ICT market in the coming years. However, IoT solutions comprise more than just the hardware and software necessary to realize the technical infrastructure, as they also include the human actors, organisations, policies and regulatory systems involved. With some estimates predicting 50 billion devices by 2020, and the proportion of data collected passively through machine-to-machine transactions surpassing that actively generated by individuals - solutions are needed to strengthen trust.
Using an existing community Internet of Things testbed located in the Tillydrone district of Aberdeen, we will explore what it means to realize solutions that are transparent, accountable, and which empower end-users. The TrustLens is our vision of a future toolset that will enable individuals, and the communities of which they are a part, to better understand and manage the data about them. However, before we can realize the TrustLens, several key issues need to be investigated:
What are the appropriate governance arrangements covering IoT deployments? How do we deliver meaningful accountability? How can we develop an understanding of the interplay between individuals and devices, and the wider relationship to social/cultural norms? What are the attitudes of citizens and communities to privacy and risk in an IoT context? How should risks and benefits be communicated? How do users make informed decisions to judge the trustworthiness of information?
Answers to these (and the many other questions that will certainly emerge) will lead us to develop prototype solutions that will be evaluated with members of the Tillydrone community. Our ambition is to create a means by which a user can review the characteristics of an IoT device in terms of its impact on their personal data, answering questions such as: What type of data is it capturing? For what purpose? Who sees it? What are the (potential) benefits and risks? They also should be able to exert a degree of control over their data, and be guided to assess its reliability and accuracy.
Using an existing community Internet of Things testbed located in the Tillydrone district of Aberdeen, we will explore what it means to realize solutions that are transparent, accountable, and which empower end-users. The TrustLens is our vision of a future toolset that will enable individuals, and the communities of which they are a part, to better understand and manage the data about them. However, before we can realize the TrustLens, several key issues need to be investigated:
What are the appropriate governance arrangements covering IoT deployments? How do we deliver meaningful accountability? How can we develop an understanding of the interplay between individuals and devices, and the wider relationship to social/cultural norms? What are the attitudes of citizens and communities to privacy and risk in an IoT context? How should risks and benefits be communicated? How do users make informed decisions to judge the trustworthiness of information?
Answers to these (and the many other questions that will certainly emerge) will lead us to develop prototype solutions that will be evaluated with members of the Tillydrone community. Our ambition is to create a means by which a user can review the characteristics of an IoT device in terms of its impact on their personal data, answering questions such as: What type of data is it capturing? For what purpose? Who sees it? What are the (potential) benefits and risks? They also should be able to exert a degree of control over their data, and be guided to assess its reliability and accuracy.
Planned Impact
Who will benefit from this research?
The scope of the proposed research means that there are range of organisations and individuals who will benefit:
* Public.
* Public sector organisations (including our partners in Aberdeen City Council),
* Third sector and community organisations interested in the dynamics of personal data solutions.
* Government and policy-makers interested in future legal and regulatory frameworks around trust, personal data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
* Business (inc SMEs) active in the IoT, sensing, and app markets.
How will they benefit from this research?
Members of the public living within our community testbed area will benefit from their direct involvement in the research - through enhanced understanding of emerging technologies and the associated personal data challenges. The wider public will be exposed to these issues via a series of public engagement activities - our aim being to stimulate debate about the need for user-centred IoT solutions that embrace transparency, accountability and empowerment.
Public and third sector organisations will gain greater understanding of the challenges associated with future technology deployments into communities, and models for sustainable governance and future accountability.
Government and policy-makers at local, devolved and national levels will be able to access evidence drawn from a real user community situated at the edge of society. The potential for IoT solutions to transform various aspects of public service is often noted in the policy landscape, but we will present government with greater understanding of the attitudes of individual citizens to data from such devices (including perception of risks and benefits).
Businesses will gain access to a range of solutions necessary to deliver greater trust in the IoT. These will be accessible through a range of opensource software prototypes and frameworks, and via our contributions to open standards (W3C). Through preliminary conversations with Nominet UK, BT, and IBM there is clear evidence of interest in our proposals.
The scope of the proposed research means that there are range of organisations and individuals who will benefit:
* Public.
* Public sector organisations (including our partners in Aberdeen City Council),
* Third sector and community organisations interested in the dynamics of personal data solutions.
* Government and policy-makers interested in future legal and regulatory frameworks around trust, personal data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
* Business (inc SMEs) active in the IoT, sensing, and app markets.
How will they benefit from this research?
Members of the public living within our community testbed area will benefit from their direct involvement in the research - through enhanced understanding of emerging technologies and the associated personal data challenges. The wider public will be exposed to these issues via a series of public engagement activities - our aim being to stimulate debate about the need for user-centred IoT solutions that embrace transparency, accountability and empowerment.
Public and third sector organisations will gain greater understanding of the challenges associated with future technology deployments into communities, and models for sustainable governance and future accountability.
Government and policy-makers at local, devolved and national levels will be able to access evidence drawn from a real user community situated at the edge of society. The potential for IoT solutions to transform various aspects of public service is often noted in the policy landscape, but we will present government with greater understanding of the attitudes of individual citizens to data from such devices (including perception of risks and benefits).
Businesses will gain access to a range of solutions necessary to deliver greater trust in the IoT. These will be accessible through a range of opensource software prototypes and frameworks, and via our contributions to open standards (W3C). Through preliminary conversations with Nominet UK, BT, and IBM there is clear evidence of interest in our proposals.
Organisations
- University of Aberdeen (Lead Research Organisation)
- National Taiwan University (Collaboration)
- IBM (Collaboration)
- University of Southern California (Collaboration)
- Station House Media Unit (SHMU) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Aberdeen City Council (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- IBM (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Asif W
(2018)
Increasing user controllability on device specific privacy in the Internet of Things
in Computer Communications
Markovic M
(2018)
Towards automated privacy risk assessments in IoT systems
Aggarwal A
(2019)
User Privacy Risk Analysis For The Internet of Things
| Description | The project has developed a number of tools designed to enhance trust in the Internet of Things. The first of these is a governance toolkit designed for use by communities and organisations considering IoT deployments; the toolkit exists in both a physical (deck of cards) and digital format, and prompts users to consider key questions and decisions that will enhance trust. Another output is the TrustLens app - a simple user-interface that allows users to interrogate IoT devices to discover key characteristics such as onboard sensors, data gathering and sharing behaviours; the app is underpinned by a computational infrastructure that enables IoT deployments to be described using a rich vocabulary based upon open standards. |
| Exploitation Route | The governance toolkit is available for any organisation considering an Internet of Things deployment, and we plan to make it available for download via the Web. The ontologies used to describe IoT systems are also available and are reusable/extensible by others; the TrustLens app is also available for others to download. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | https://trustlens.wordpress.com |
| Description | Our close working with the members of the Tillydrone community in Aberdeen has helped raise awareness of the themes of trust and privacy surrounding the roll out of Internet of Things devices; it has stimulated discussion within that community and has resulted in them questioning local government sensing/sensor deployment initiatives. We have also (through partnership working with the community) developed models of governance for IoT deployments and have showcased these to a number of stakeholders including Aberdeen City Council, and a community air-pollution monitoring network. Our work has also influenced the development of the Aberdeen Smart City Strategy. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Member of Aberdeen City Region Deal - Digital Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Membership of Smarter Digital City Multi-Agency Group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Enhancing Agri-Food Transparent Sustainability - EATS |
| Amount | £408,499 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V042270/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | PECE Travel Bursary |
| Amount | £4,630 (GBP) |
| Organisation | SICSA Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 11/2018 |
| Description | PROoFD IT!: Provenance of Food Delivery through IoT |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 10/2019 |
| Description | Participatory Policies for IoT (at the Edge) Ethics |
| Amount | £55,462 (GBP) |
| Organisation | PETRAS National Centre of Excellence |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Realising Accountable Intelligent Systems (RAInS) |
| Amount | £789,003 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R033846/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Royal Society of Edinburgh - MoST Joint Project Scheme |
| Amount | £21,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2017 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | Aberdeen City - TrustLens Collaboration |
| Organisation | Aberdeen City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Engagement with Aberdeen City Council staff spanning a number of departments including IT & Infrastructure, Community Engagement, Economic Development. Team members have briefed Council personnel on ethical issues surrounding Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, shared experience of other smart city deployments (inc. the Array of Things project in Chicago). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Council has provided access to personnel, expertise, contacts and visibility of Council IoT deployments. |
| Impact | To early to indicate. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | IBM Research |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Presentations, data-sharing, sharing of progress updates |
| Collaborator Contribution | A senior IBM representative acted as chair of the project advisory group and provided valuable input into project discussions. |
| Impact | Input influenced thinking/outcomes across the project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | IBM Research |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Presentations, data-sharing, sharing of progress updates |
| Collaborator Contribution | A senior IBM representative acted as chair of the project advisory group and provided valuable input into project discussions. |
| Impact | Input influenced thinking/outcomes across the project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Organisation | University of Southern California |
| Department | Information Sciences Institute (ISI) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration was a result of the research exchange visit funded by the SICSA PECE travel bursary. Milan Markovic (MM) and Peter Edwards (PE) collaborated with researchers from Information Science Institute on the EP-Plan extension (http://w3id.org/ep-plan). One of the publications which has resulted from this collaboration received the best paper award from the IEEE IoT SMS conference held in Granda, Spain, October, 2019. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Daniel Garijo (DG) from the Information Science Institute has collaborated with MM and PE on two research publications. In addition, DG invited MM to co-chair teh Third International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge collocated with K-Cap 2019, 19-21 November 2019, Marina del Rey, California, United States. |
| Impact | Markovic, M., Garijo, D., Edwards, P. and Vasconcelos, W., 2019, October. Semantic modelling of plans and execution traces for enhancing transparency of iot systems. In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS) (pp. 110-115). IEEE. Markovic, M., Garijo, D. and Edwards, P., 2019, October. Linking Abstract Plans of Scientific Experiments to their Corresponding Execution Traces. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge (Sciknow 2019). CEUR-WS. Markovic, M., Garijo, D., Edwards, P., Vasconcelos, W., EP-Plan: Linking Abstract Plans with Execution Traces, April 2019, https://w3id.org/ep-plan. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | NTU Collaboration |
| Organisation | National Taiwan University |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration is supported in part by this award, and in part by a joint award made by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Taiwan Ministry of Science & Technology. To date, our contribution has been: to host a visitor from NTU (Summer 2017) during which we shared work to date on governance of IoT deployments, and our emerging model of IoT ecosystem transparency. We followed this up with a visit by three members of the TrustLens team to Taipei (November 2017) during which we: presented the Trustlens project to a large multi-disciplinary audience; conducted fieldwork activities with Taiwanese citizens involved in a domestic IoT study - to explore their attitudes to trust and privacy; discussed how semantic models of IoT device characteristics and behaviours could be integrated with work ongoing at NTU. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NTU have shared details of their IoT middleware platform (WuKong) and have provided Aberdeen researchers will access to IoT trial subjects in Taipei. Together, we have begun a shape a common model of IoT device/ecosystem metadata. |
| Impact | None to date. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SHMU - TrustLens Collaboration |
| Organisation | Station House Media Unit (SHMU) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Sharing our expertise with SHMU on: community Internet of Things deployments, user-centred design methods. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to personnel, network of contacts. |
| Impact | Too early to say. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | A provenance-aware extension of the open source MQTT broker Moquette |
| Description | An extension of a JAVA-based MQTT broker Moquette capable of emitting and inspecting provenance streams annotated using the MQTT-PLAN and EP-PLAN ontology. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3366610.3368099 |
| Title | EP-PLAN Ontology |
| Description | PROV extension for linking Plans and parts of plans to their respective executions |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | http://www.w3id.org/ep-plan |
| Title | MQTT-PLAN Ontology |
| Description | The MQTT-PLAN ontology defines a set of concepts for describing plans of MQTT enabled message brokers. The vocabulary for plan descriptions forms an extension to the high level concepts defined in P-PLAN. Execution trace of such plans is then modelled using PROV-O. In order to keep the vocabulary lightweight, this version of the ontology does not cover some of the functionalities specified in MQTT 3.1.1. These include: publish attributes defining the required quality of service and associated acknowledgments, will messages, retaining of messages by the server, session flags. Username and password flags are also not captured explicitly for security reasons. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | http://w3id.org/mqtt-plan |
| Title | PROV-Templates for generating provenance descriptions using the SDPO ontology |
| Description | PROV-Templates for generating provenance descriptions using the SDPO ontology (https://w3id.org/sdpo/). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | https://github.com/TrustLens/sdpo |
| Title | Semantic Sensor Network System Deployment Provenance Ontology (SDPO) |
| Description | The Semantic Sensor Network System Deployment Provenance Ontology (SDPO) is designed to support describing the activities, entities, and agents that have influenced the deployment of a SSN System. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | http://www.w3id.org/sdpo/ |
| Title | TrustLens Mobile App & Server |
| Description | A mobile app providing users with ability to locate and audit IoT devices in their vicinity. The application provides answers to a number of transparency questions relating to entities responsible for the deployment and operation of the IoT devices, data that are being collected, etc. The app displays the data received from a server application that maintains a semantic knowledge graph containing the required information. The graph is annotated using the EP-Plan ontology (http://www.w3id.org/ep-plan). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | https://github.com/TrustLens/TrustlensMobileAppServer |
| Title | TrustLens Policy Toolkit |
| Description | This web-based tool help those involved in the deployments of IoT solutions to anticipate potential problems such as privacy risks, and expose information which should be available to those who might wish to understand the system, such as members of the public. The tool directs a user through a series of thematically grouped questions based on the current stage of the IoT deployment process and interests of the users. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date |
| URL | https://trustlens.github.io/TrustlensPolicyToolkit/ |
| Description | AirAberdeen/Trustlens sensor build workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In association with the community-led volunteer group AirAberdeen, TrustLens sponsered a build workshop event. 7 air quality sensor boxes were built for deployment in the local Tillydrone area by residents and at the local school. These will contribute to the wider understanding of air quality in the region and educate the public about the IoT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://airaberdeen.org |
| Description | Article in TillyTattle local news magazine Winter 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | TillyTattle ran an article about the traffic sensor in Tillydrone and the work done surrounding it as part of the TrustLens project, mentioning the work of the project and including a quote from the City Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.shmu.org.uk/sites/all/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/sites/default/files/magazine... |
| Description | Attendance at TIPS Networking event: 'Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participation (including poster presentation) at networking event for TIPS researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://pactman.uk/building-a-community-of-uk-tips-researchers/ |
| Description | Cafe Scientifique: The Things are Coming! (Tarland) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Pete Edwards and Dr Milan Markovic gave a talk and demonstrations on 14 Dec, 2016 on the theme "The Things Are Coming!" as part of the Cafe Scientifique series organised by the Cromar Future Group based in Tarland, Aberdeenshire. The event focussed on the privacy and trust issues associated with the Internet of Things; the audience engaged in a lively debate, with many reporting that they were now much more aware of the challenges (technical and social) that need to be addressed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.futuregroup.org.uk/talks-and-activities/winter-201617/ |
| Description | Community-based sustainable smart cities and IoT - EPSRC-sponsored workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Position paper accepted and presented at this workshop, which aimed to broaden the field of sustainable smart cities beyond top-down, utilitarian narratives, had the purpose of discussing potential collaborations and publications in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://connectedseeds.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Early Career Researcher Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We hosted an ECR workshop for persons involved in projects funded through the TIPS and TIPS2 calls or associated with activities in trust, privacy, security and technology. Roughly 20 people attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FInal TrustLens workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was the final workshop of the TrustLens project, which was held in a local community centre and aimed to present results of the work of the project to persons who had contributed to the research throughout. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Live segment on SHMU radio about TrustLens |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Naomi Jacobs and Caitlin Cottrill were guests on the TillyTalks show at SHMU radio, a 1 hour show discussing the internet of things, trust, privacy and the work of the TrustLens project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.shmu.org.uk/fm/shows/tilly-talks |
| Description | Magazine article: How We Get To Next: One Last Thing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Magazine article in the online magazine/newsletter 'How We Get to Next'. Introduced the concept of design fiction and the work of the TrustLens project. Why Designers Are Making Real Versions of Imaginary Objects Design fiction doesn't predict how things will be - it starts a discussion on what might be Large circulation of email newsletter, plus publication online via Medium and wide circulation and discussion via Twitter. After 1 week, stats indicate 750 views and 191 reads of online article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://howwegettonext.com/why-designers-are-making-real-versions-of-imaginary-objects-88345507a60 |
| Description | National Chiao Tung University Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitied "Increasing the transparency of IoT device depoyments using Semantic Web technologies" given to an audience of computing science academics and research students from Professor Yu-Chee Tseng's research group with follow up discussion on IoT, transparency, trust and provenance and challenges for UK and Taiwan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | National Chiao Tung University Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitied "Towards Transparency of IoT Message Brokers" given to an audience of computing science academics and research students from Professor Yu-Chee Tseng's research group with follow up discussion on IoT, transparency, trust and provenance and challenges for UK and Taiwan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | National Taiwan University talk (November 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled "Trusted Things & Communities" to an audience comprising academics (multiple disciplines), clinicians, postgraduate students and IoT trial participants. Generated wider discussion on IoT and data governance and challenges for UK and Taiwan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | PechaKucha Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Now running in over 500 cities across the world PechaKucha Nights bring together people in a relaxed, simple and enjoyable format to meet, network and share their ideas and work in public. PechaKucha Nights were developed by two architects in Japan. It means 'chit chat' in Japanese and refers to the format where presenters have 20 slides and 20 seconds to talk about each slide making short, fast moving presentations of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This event took place at the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen on March 16th 2017. Various issues investigated in the TrustLens project which relate to the Internet of Things in domestic settings were presented to members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/engage/public/pechakucha-aberdeen-217.php |
| Description | PechaKucha Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Now running in over 500 cities across the world PechaKucha Nights bring together people in a relaxed, simple and enjoyable format to meet, network and share their ideas and work in public. PechaKucha Nights were developed by two architects in Japan. It means 'chit chat' in Japanese and refers to the format where presenters have 20 slides and 20 seconds to talk about each slide making short, fast moving presentations of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This event took place at the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen on March 16th 2017 and the TrustLens project was presented to members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/engage/public/pechakucha-aberdeen-217.php |
| Description | Presentation as part of UK-Taiwan AI in Healthcare Workshop, Taipei - March 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at joint UK-Taiwan workshop on AI & Healthcare organised by the British Office, Taipei and the Taiwan Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST). Workshop had approx. 60 attendees spanning academia, industry and some postgraduate students. Following the event, there were a number of requests for more information on the work of the Trusted Things & Communities project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at IIIT-Bangalore on TrustLens activities and outcomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to approx. 15 faculty members, research staff and postgraduate students at IIIT-Bangalore, India on Monday, February 24th 2020. Discussions focussed on both the governance toolkit and the IoT transparency tool/app. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation of a paper at the TRB Annual Meeting, which attracts 10,000+ attendees. The paper sparked a good deal of discussion around privacy, trust, and the Internet of Things. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2020 |
| URL | http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/Program.aspx |
| Description | Royal Society of Edinburgh/Taiwan MoST Internet of Things Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Pete Edwards was an invited participant and speaker at the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Taiwan Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST) workshop on the Internet of Things, held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 19-20 October 2016. Edwards presentation was entitled "Trusted Things & Communities Understanding and Enabling a Trusted IoT Ecosystem". Participation in the event has resulted in the development of new contacts within MoST and several universities in Taiwan; a joint funding bid for bilateral travel support was submitted in January 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | SICSA CyberNexus - Workshop on Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The SICSA CyberNexus Workshop on Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things is an academic workshop primarily intended for staff and research students from SICSA institutions. The workshop website is at: http://cybersecurity.abertay.ac.uk/iot2018 TrustLens work was presented. Event abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging from the lab into the everyday world, but the sheer number of devices of which it is predicted to comprise mean that current approaches to cybersecurity are unlikely to scale to cope. Aspects of privacy associated with the widespread deployment of sensor devices have yet to find solutions. These and other problems make this a fruitful field for cybersecurity and computer science researchers. Considering design, technological, human and societal aspects of the IoT, this one-day workshop will examine the challenges, possible solutions and interesting research directions associated with the problem of securing the IoT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://cybersecurity.abertay.ac.uk/iot2018 |
| Description | SICSA CyberNexus Workshop on Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by David Corsar at the SICSA CyberNexus Workshop on Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things. The presentation (title "A Community Driven Transparency Model for the Internet of Things") discussed work of the TrustLens project on developing a model for enhancing transparency of IoT deployments by contextualizing such devices, their behaviours, data, and its usage. This included how requirements for the model are influenced by community engagement activities with local residents and guidance published by the tech industry. Application of the model to an IoT deployment scenario was also presented, along with a discussion of how the model will be used within the TrustLens project to allow citizens to explore details about IoT deployments, assist them in understanding the risks and benefits associated with IoT devices, and to assess the quality of the data produced. Further details of the workshop and presentation slides are available on the workshop website at: http://cybersecurity.abertay.ac.uk/iot2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://cybersecurity.abertay.ac.uk/iot2018 |
| Description | School visit (May Festival) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Two classes of school children (P1 and P6 levels) took part in an activity entitled 'Connected Things: Should we trust them?'. Classes were of 21 and 24 pupils respectively. This was intended to introduce the concept of the Internet of Things and related questions of trust and privacy, and included an introduction to the topic and use of the 'smart dolls house' to prompt discussion and activities. Positive feedback was received from teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Scotland Data Science and Technology Meetup: Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Milan Markovic and Naomi Jacobs to introduce the work of the TrustLens project, followed by a discussion on IoT trust and governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/Scotland-Data-Science-Technology-Meetup/events/253338745/ |
| Description | Semantic information ecosystems: Don't take your data out of context! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A departmental seminar at the University of Leeds including an overview of several projects from our research group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Semantic modelling and utilisation of contextual information within intelligent systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A guest lecture at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China including an overview of several projects from our research group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Smart Because of You: Co-production Between Researchers and Citizens in Nottingham Smart City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nearly 100 people attended a workshop to discuss Smart City infrastructure, programming and deployments. The day sparked considerable debate and conversation around governance and the structures in place to ensure sustained community interaction and involvement in decision-making. Attendees reported an increased interest in working on these issues, with two members following up on related research questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Smart Cities and Communities: Connecting Citizens |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Smart Cities and Communities: Connecting Citizens event explored the most innovative and efficient ways to use technology and data to tackle some of the biggest problems across the UK. Major city leaders and business figures from across the UK and internationally shared their views on how to develop smart and more connected cities. Industry partners and service providers displayed prototypes and information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Smart city governance models and implications for trust, transparency and accountability. Presentation at Ways of Being Digital Review Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to interdisciplinary review conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://waysofbeingdigital.com/conference/ |
| Description | The Internet of Everything: Friend or Foe? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Caitlin Cottrill, Dr Karen Salt, Dr David Corsar, and Dr Waqar Asif each gave a talk followed by demonstrations on the theme "The Internet of Everything: Friend or Foe?" on April 13 2017 at the Edinburgh International Science Festival 2017. The event focused on the privacy, governance, security, and trust issues associated with the Internet of Things; the audience were very engaged with the topic, participating in insightful debate and discussions throughout the event, with many reporting new awareness of privacy, governance, security, and trust issues in the context of the Internet of Things. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/the-internet-of-everything-friend-or-foe |
| Description | Tillydrone Gala 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A TrustLens stall was held at the local 'Tillydrone Gala' event which provides activities and information to the local community. we presented the work of the project as well as activities designed to introduce the concept of the Internet of Things - including a 'wheel of IoT' and 'smart dolls house'. We entered discussion with many members of the public including young people and collected contact information for those who wish to be further involved in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | TrustLens talk at UK-Japan IoT event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled "Making Trust Transparent: Realising a Citizen-Centred Internet of Things" as part of the UK-Japan IoT workshop held at the British Embassy, Tokyo - September 7 & 8, 2017. The workshop participants were drawn from UK academia, Japanese academia, industry and science funders. Activities at the workshop have already spawned a new funded collaboration with one of the other UK participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop & Working Session on the Internet of Things |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop brought together several researchers and postgraduate students from the UK and Taiwan to share recent research on the Internet of Things and to discuss the challenges surrounding privacy and trust in such technologies. Taiwan representatives were from National Taiwan University and National Chiao Tung University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |