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Christina Schneegaß, Heinrich Hussmann
The Role of the User in the Social Internet of Things
In CHI '17 Social Internet of Things Workshop: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Denver, CO, USA, May 6 - 11, 2017. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)

With the growing ubiquity of smart devices and their ongoing technological advancement, the role of the user in the Internet of Things steadily changes. With the emerging Social Internet of Things it gets even more important to evaluate this role. A central aspect of this concept is the autonomous inter-object interaction. Objects are expected to communicate invisibly and establish friendship relations among each other as known from social networks. This paper reviews the userâs role within the Social Internet of Things as well as the userâs goals and needs. Therewith, this paper works out research challenges which have not been sufficiently answered yet. Exemplarily, the growing autonomy of the devices is critically reviewed as well as its effects on the user. Simultaneously, first steps for methodological setups are proposed for further evaluations.