The RELINK project aims to develop frameworks, tools and scenarios that address current and future risk and safety issues related Internet of Things (IoT) in connected homes and households. The project will a) conduct in-depth studies of households to understand consumers? everyday uses, experiences and attitudes towards risks and vulnerabilities of IoT, b) map out the overall technological and social infrastructures of consumer household IoT and the scope of digital vulnerabilities, c) develop and deploy a set of current and future scenarios depicting possible risks and opportunities of technologies in connected households, and d) devise a toolkit that enables households to ensure security in the use of household technologies. The toolkit will include online resources, personal data protection risk assessment and awareness tools, guidelines and training modules. The scenarios will use narratives and fictional elements designed to encourage citizen and cross-sector reflection on security, technology and the future of the connected household. The project will adopt a multidisciplinary mixed-method approach using ethnography, surveys, data analytics, visualization, and co-design methods. Project results are communicated to researchers, experts, policy makers, industry and the public through various academic and public arrangements and publication channels as well as through the RELINK project webpage https://blogg.hioa.no/relink/
