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White Noise from the White Goods? Privacy by Design for Ambient Domestic Computing (2020)
Book Chapter
Urquhart, L. (2020). White Noise from the White Goods? Privacy by Design for Ambient Domestic Computing. In L. Edwards, B. Schafer, & E. Harbinja (Eds.), Future Law: Emerging Technology, Regulation and Ethics. Edinburgh University Press

Within this chapter we consider the emergence of ambient domestic computing systems, both conceptually and empirically. We critically assess visions of post-desktop computing, paying particular attention to one contemporary trend: the internet of thi... Read More about White Noise from the White Goods? Privacy by Design for Ambient Domestic Computing.

MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019). MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (271--276). https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882

The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, and contextualizes personal recollections. The Memory Machine has been guided... Read More about MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine.

Responsible domestic robotics: exploring ethical implications of robots in the home (2019)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., Reedman-Flint, D., & Leesakul, N. (2019). Responsible domestic robotics: exploring ethical implications of robots in the home. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 17(2), 246-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-12-2018-0096

Purpose: The vision of robotics in the home promises increased convenience, comfort, companionship, and greater security for users. The robot industry risks causing harm to users, being rejected by society at large, or being regulated in overly presc... Read More about Responsible domestic robotics: exploring ethical implications of robots in the home.

Adaptive Architecture and Personal Data (2019)
Journal Article
Schnädelbach, H., Jäger, N., & Urquhart, L. (2019). Adaptive Architecture and Personal Data. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 26(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3301426

Via sensors carried by people and sensors embedded in the environment, personal data is being processed to try to understand activity patterns and people{\textquoteright}s internal states in the context of human-building interaction. This data is use... Read More about Adaptive Architecture and Personal Data.

Adaptive Architecture: regulating human building interaction (2019)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., Schnädelbach, H., & Jäger, N. (2019). Adaptive Architecture: regulating human building interaction. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 33(1), 3-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2019.1562605

In this paper, we explore the regulatory, technical and interactional implications of Adaptive Architecture (AA) and how it will recalibrate the nature of human-building interaction. We comprehensively unpack the emergence and history of this novel c... Read More about Adaptive Architecture: regulating human building interaction.

Demonstrably doing accountability in the internet of things (2018)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., Lodge, T., & Crabtree, A. (2018). Demonstrably doing accountability in the internet of things. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 27(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eay015

This article explores the importance of accountability to data protection (DP), and how it can be built into the Internet of Things (IoT). The need to build accountability into the IoT is motivated by the opaque nature of distributed data flows, inad... Read More about Demonstrably doing accountability in the internet of things.

Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model (2018)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., Glover, K., Haddadi, H., …McAuley, D. (2018). Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model. Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments, 4(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40860-018-0054-5

© 2018, The Author(s). This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and is mandated by the European Union’s general data pro... Read More about Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model.

Avoiding the internet of insecure industrial things (2018)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., & McAuley, D. (2018). Avoiding the internet of insecure industrial things. Computer Law and Security Review, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2017.12.004

Security incidents such as targeted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on power grids and hacking of factory industrial control systems (ICS) are on the increase. This paper unpacks where emerging security risks lie for the industrial inter... Read More about Avoiding the internet of insecure industrial things.

Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges (2017)
Journal Article
Perez Vallejos, E., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Hunt, D., Woodard, C., Urquhart, L., …Statache, R. (in press). Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges. Philosophy && Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0286-y

This article addresses the general ethical issues of accessing online personal data for research purposes. The authors discuss the practical aspects of online research with a specific case study that illustrates the ethical challenges encountered whe... Read More about Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges.

Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things (2017)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., Sailaja, N., & McAuley, D. (2018). Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 22, 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1069-2

Bringing the new right to data portability (RTDP) from an abstract legal provision in Article 20 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016 into practice requires a greater role for the IT design community. Simply put, the RTDP seeks to... Read More about Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things.

New directions in information technology law: learning from human–computer interaction (2017)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., & Rodden, T. (in press). New directions in information technology law: learning from human–computer interaction. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2017.1298501

Effectively regulating the domestic Internet of Things (IoT) requires a turn to technology design. However, the role of designers as regulators still needs to be situated. By drawing on a specific domain of technology design, human–computer interacti... Read More about New directions in information technology law: learning from human–computer interaction.

Privacy in public spaces: what expectations of privacy do we have in social media intelligence? (2016)
Journal Article
Edwards, L., & Urquhart, L. (2016). Privacy in public spaces: what expectations of privacy do we have in social media intelligence?. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 24(3), 279-310. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eaw007

In this paper we give an introduction to the transition in contemporary surveillance from top down traditional police surveillance to profiling and “pre-crime” methods. We then review in more detail the rise of open source (OSINT) and social media (S... Read More about Privacy in public spaces: what expectations of privacy do we have in social media intelligence?.

Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Luger, E., Urquhart, L., Rodden, T., & Golembewski, M. (2015). Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (457-466). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702142

© Copyright 2015 ACM. The regulatory climate is in a process of change. Design, having been implicated for some time, is now explicitly linked to law. This paper recognises the heightened role of designers in the regulation of ambient interactive tec... Read More about Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process.