Visible to the public An Interface Without A User: An Exploratory Design Study of Online Privacy Policies and Digital Legalese

TitleAn Interface Without A User: An Exploratory Design Study of Online Privacy Policies and Digital Legalese
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsPierce, James, Fox, Sarah, Merrill, Nick, Wong, Richmond, DiSalvo, Carl
Conference NameProceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-5198-0
KeywordsHuman Behavior, Interaction design, privacy, Privacy Policies, privacy policy, pubcrawl, Scalability, security, terms of service
AbstractPrivacy policies are critical to understanding one's rights on online platforms, yet few users read them. In this pictorial, we approach this as a systemic issue that is part a failure of interaction design. We provided a variety of people with printed packets of privacy policies, aiming to tease out this form's capabilities and limitations as a design interface, to understand people's perception and uses, and to critically imagine pragmatic revisions and creative alternatives to existing privacy policies.
URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3196709.3196818
DOI10.1145/3196709.3196818
Citation Keypierce_interface_2018