Cocoon - Emotion Psychology meets Cyber-Security
Cocoon combines innovations in two complementary disciplines: emotion psychology and cyber security. The overall objective of Cocoon is to understand and improve the security of home IoT technology, hence to produce an understanding of the psychology of IoT users, assess risks in current and future IoT systems, and formulate provisions for the design and integration of user-centric IoT in tomorrow's homes.
The objectives of Cocoon are to examine the emotional investment of IoT users with, for example, experiments conducted in a number of volunteering households, and the development of a novel Intrusion Detection System (IDS). This IDS will make use of a our Cocoon Smart IoT Node that can run autonomous tests, scans the radio and acoustic environment, and collects data to be used in data analytics, often off-loaded to cloud services. The Cocoon Smart IoT Node is designed to scan radio spectrum regardless of the used wireless protocol, and reports radio spectrum usage patterns only.
Background:
The Cocoon project is funded by the European Union's CHIST-ERA activity (Call 2015, Topic: User-Centric Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things). CHIST-ERA is a coordination and co-operation activity of national and regional research funding organisations mainly in Europe. The Laboratory of Software Technology, Thomas Gross, is member of the Cocoon project. We work closely with partners mainly from England, Belgium, and The Netherlands.