IoT4Kids: Strategies for Mitigating Against Risks of IoT for Children

Published in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

Recommended citation: Knowles, B.H., Beck, S., Newmarch, G., Finney, J. and Devine, J., 2019. IoT4Kids: Strategies for Mitigating Against Risks of IoT for Children. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019. ACM. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/132270/

This paper describes the key outputs of IoT4Kids, a project exploring the privacy, security and safety implications of children programming the Internet of Things.We present our Risk Mitigation Checklist in order to illustrate the need for a multi-pronged approach for attending to risks to children from emergent IoT devices, and we discuss what this may mean in terms of industry practice, policymaking and education