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Design, construction, and application of a generic visual language generation environment
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Envisioning Tool Support for Designing Privacy-Aware Internet of Thing Applications
The design and development process for Internet of Things (IoT) applications
is more complicated than for desktop, mobile, or web applications. IoT
applications require both software and hardware to work together across
multiple different types of nodes (e.g., microcontrollers, system-on-chips,
mobile phones, miniaturised single-board computers, and cloud platforms) with
different capabilities under different conditions. IoT applications typically
collect and analyse personal data that can be used to derive sensitive
information about individuals. Without proper privacy protections in place, IoT
applications could lead to serious privacy violations. Thus far, privacy
concerns have not been explicitly considered in software engineering processes
when designing and developing IoT applications, partly due to a lack of tools,
technologies, and guidance. This paper presents a research vision that argues
the importance of developing a privacy-aware IoT application design tool to
address the challenges mentioned above. This tool should not only transform IoT
application designs into privacy-aware application designs but also validate
and verify them. First, we outline how this proposed tool should work in
practice and its core functionalities. Then, we identify research challenges
and potential directions towards developing the proposed tool. We anticipate
that this proposed tool will save many engineering hours which engineers would
otherwise need to spend on developing privacy expertise and applying it. We
also highlight the usefulness of this tool towards privacy education and
privacy compliance