Designing Trustworthy and Privacy-Conscious Smart Home Experiences for Older Adults


Post-Doctoral Research


Project Summary

  •  Individually lead UX research examining usable privacy of voice-enabled smart home and AI technologies for older adults
  • Designed and executed interactive workshops with older adults exploring adoption and understanding of data collection and privacy of voice-enabled smart home AI technologies 
  • Collaborated with interdisciplinary researchers and stakeholders across privacy, accessibility, aging, and human-centered AI domains 
  • Supervised and mentored graduate and undergraduate researchers on research design, data analysis, and communication of insights 

Resulting Publications:

  • Maddock, Catherine, Christine Murad, Adam Loo, and Cosmin Munteanu. 2025. Older Adults and Smart Home Devices: A Legal Critique of Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Agreements of Voice-Activated Smart Home Devices. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 56-71. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025.

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