FURI | Spring 2018

What’s up with Privacy?: User Preferences and Privacy Concerns in Intelligent Personal Assistants

The recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have allowed individuals to rely on automated systems and are helping humans be productive and efficient in their everyday tasks at home or workplace. Some of these systems include devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are also called Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs). The researchers aim to investigate how and why users are balancing the usability vs privacy while utilizing IPAs and specifically the privacy effects on individuals using machine learning techniques.