The role of decisional autonomy in user-IoT systems interaction

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to spread, emerging technologies provide devices with various autonomous capabilities that enable them to assist their users in a multitude of activities throughout their daily lives. Despite this, it is still unclear what the role of autonomy should be in this context, as limited academic research has been conducted on such a topic. This study tries to fill this research gap, by proposing a possible solution on how IoT devices may act in order to develop and regulate their autonomy, in relation to the specific user they interface with. After introducing a theoretical framework, we considered a possible implementation in a simulation context, showing how the proposed approach works.