From Rights to Rites: Expectations Management in Smart-Home AI
Domestic voice assistants and smart-home devices are increasingly embedded in everyday routines, yet their ethics are often treated as an afterthought or delegated to compliance teams. To explore how expectations about smart-home AI are constructed and managed, we conducted 33 semi-structured interviews with designers, developers, and researchers from major smart-home platforms (Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Azure IoT, and Google Nest). Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, we develop Expec
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Published: 26 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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