The Behavioural Implications of Ubiquitous Monitoring

Ubiquitous environments such as intelligent pervasive spaces are designed to make life better for users. In order to provide much of their intended functionality, significant amounts of data need to be collected about users through sensors deployed ubiquitously. Existing monitoring technologies have been known to often cause undesirable effects, and it is anticipated that ubiquitous monitoring, with its increased coverage, will result in an increase in the occurrence of these effects. So far, a limited amount of research has investigated the impact of this technology on users. As such, we present a preliminary model, consisting of a series of factors related to ubiquitous monitoring believed to influence behaviour, and augmented by the Theory of Planned Behaviour for understanding, predicting and therefore preventing any undesirable effects.