in conjunction with the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2023)
15 - 16 November 2023
Istanbul, Turkey
13 Nov 2023: The workshop will start at 09:00 on Tuesday 14 November (NB updated time). Venue to be confirmed so pls meet at the registration desk about 08:50. Online participants pls email Rachel for a link.
16 OCT 2023: The draft program is now available from the Program page!
15 AUG 2023: The deadline for the paper has been extended to 4 SEP 2023!
14 AUG 2023: Please double-check the paper format, we have recently updated this to match the BuildSys format used (ACM sigconf, double column)!
8 JUN 2023: The site is ready!
Our built environments increasingly collect sensitive information about their human occupants using sensors such as smart electricity, gas and water meters, building occupancy temperature and vibration sensors, and many types of image-based sensing. As the number of sensors and monitoring systems in smart buildings and smart cities grows, so too does the risk to privacy for the people that inhabit those spaces. This triggers some important questions, such as:
What are our rights to privacy as citizens and how might those be compromised by smart buildings and smart cities?
What specific challenges do sensor systems in built environments pose for protecting human privacy?
As designers of sensor systems, what are our responsibilities for protecting privacy?
What privacy-enhancing technologies are most effective to mitigate risks to privacy whilst preserving the utility of the data?
How can we measure privacy and utility for data and applications for the built environment?
How can we track whether sensor systems and data analytics adhere to privacy standards?
How can fairness, transparency, accuracy, integrity, confidentiality, and data minimisation be built-in to sensing systems?
The First Workshop on Privacy in Smart Buildings and Environments (PSBE) aims to bring together researchers with multiple perspectives on these questions to explore current best practices and discuss promising directions for future research.