Titre

Wearable Activity Trackers: A Survey on Utility, Privacy, and Security

Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Salehzadeh Niksirat, Kavous
Auteure/Auteur
Velykoivanenko, Lev
Auteure/Auteur
Zufferey, Noé
Auteure/Auteur
Cherubini, Mauro
Auteure/Auteur
Huguenin, Kévin
Auteure/Auteur
Humbert, Mathias
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2024-04
Volume
56
Numéro
7
Première page
183:1
Dernière page/numéro d’article
183:40
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Over the past decade, wearable activity trackers (WATs) have become increasingly popular. However, despite many research studies in different fields (such as psychology, health, and design), few have sought to jointly examine the critical aspects of utility (i.e., benefits brought by these devices), privacy, and security (i.e., risks and vulnerabilities associated with them). To fill this gap, we reviewed 236 studies that researched the benefits of using WATs, the implications for the privacy of users of WATs, and the security vulnerabilities of these devices. Our survey revealed that these devices expose users to several threats. For example, WAT data can be mined to infer private information, such as the personality traits of the user. Whereas many works propose empirical findings about users’ privacy perceptions and their behaviors in relation to privacy, we found relatively few studies researching technologies to better protect users’ privacy with these devices. This survey contributes to systematizing knowledge on the utility, privacy, and security of WATs, shedding light on the state-of-the-art approaches with these devices, and discussing open research opportunities.
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serval:BIB_8F566FED6FC6
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DOI données de recherche
10.17605/osf.io/7mkre
Open Access
Oui
Date de création
2024-02-01T09:51:41.314Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T21:36:37Z
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Niksirat2023CSUR_.pdf

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postprint

Licence

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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5.6 MB

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Adobe PDF

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serval:BIB_8F566FED6FC6.P001

URN

urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_8F566FED6FC60

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