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Within this work, we start analyzing which reasons undermine the acceptance of IoT systems and then we propose a possible solution, tanking into account not just the user-device interaction, but also how this affects the device-device interaction. Since the complexity of the tasks the user asks may require the cooperation of some devices to be realized, the regulation of this relationship represents a necessary step for this technology. The first contribution of this work is the level characterization of the autonomy a user can grant to an IoT device. 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