Examining the Security Essences of Internet of Things (IoT) Devices in Smart Homes: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures

How they used Delve

A Middle Georgia State University doctoral researcher used Delve to code and compare 15 smart home users' questionnaire responses for a grounded theory study of IoT security, and also coded recent research literature in Delve to identify common themes of challenges, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures.

“Delve Tool was used to code and compare results during the coding process. During the study, the participants' text was analyzed to identify a specific theme and explore its potential benefits for users. The research followed these steps: organize and prepare the data for analysis, read the data, code, generate”

Field

Cybersecurity / Internet of Things

Data

An online questionnaire completed by 15 randomly selected smart home users recruited through social media groups and email, plus document analysis of recent IoT security research

Approach

Grounded theory following Creswell and Creswell: organise and prepare data, read, code, generate themes; selective coding to filter irrelevant data; recent literature also coded for themes

Data types

Open-ended survey responses, Documents