In this paper, we report on three experiments we have carried out in the context of the EMPATHY project, with the aim of helping users make better configuration choices in a smart home environment, and discuss our results. We found that there are psychological traits, such as Need for Cognition, which influence the way individuals tend to use recommendations, that there are non obvious relationships between the perceived usefulness of recommendations in different domains and individuals' ability to exploit suggestions on configuration choices, and that detailed, easy-to-understand security explanations are more persuasive than simple security warnings, when it comes to make decisions on the applicability of rules which might cause privacy and security risks.

翻译：本文报告了我们在EMPATHY项目背景下开展的三项实验，旨在帮助用户在智能家居环境中做出更优配置选择，并讨论了相关结果。研究发现：存在诸如认知需求等心理特质，会影响个体使用建议的倾向；不同领域建议的感知有用性与个体利用配置建议的能力之间存在非显性关联；在针对可能引发隐私和安全风险的规则适用性决策时，详细且易于理解的安全解释比简单的安全警告更具说服力。