Visible to the public Designing for Privacy - April 2022Conflict Detection Enabled

Submitted by Serge Egelman on Fri, 04/15/2022 - 2:28pm

PI(s), Co-PI(s), Researchers:

  • Serge Egelman (ICSI)
  • Julia Bernd (ICSI)

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED
Human Behavior, Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration

PUBLICATIONS

  • Nothing to report this quarter

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

  • We have revised our paper describing our comprehensive model of older adults' decision-making about online information-sharing (described in previous reports) and resubmitted it to ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction for a second review round.

  • As described in our previous report, we completed a paper entitled "Balancing Power Dynamics in Smart Homes: Nannies' Perspectives on How Cameras Reflect and Affect Relationships" (authors Julia Bernd, Ruba Abu-Salma, Junghyun Choy, and Alisa Frik); it was submitted in February to SOUPS 2022.

  • With our colleagues at King's College London, we are continuing to work on a second paper, focusing in part on the design implications of the wide variation in context-dependent privacy perspectives across different types of smart home devices, which we plan to submit to (Po)PETS in May.

  • Building on the research described above, we are contributing to the design of two new studies on how smart home devices affect the privacy of bystanders or people who did not choose to install and use the device, in collaboration with colleagues at ICSI, UC Berkeley, and KCL:

    • A broad survey designed to quantify people's experiences of smart devices in their own homes vs. the homes of other people, in particular whether current device designs may be able to allow for consideration of bystander privacy. We are particularly interested in quantifying how people in different socio-economic groups or positions may have different experiences with and perceptions of smart home devices.

    • A survey designed to surface social norms about what information it is acceptable for smart home devices to collect and share about secondary users or bystanders, based on the theory of privacy as contextual integrity. This survey will focus on certain specific contexts where collection and sharing of information about secondary users and bystanders is particularly likely to occur, including homes with multiple housemates, homes where domestic employees work, and homes offered as short-term rentals. We hope to compare how these situations or contexts differ in terms of what is considered acceptable, in hopes of extracting recommendations for design for technical and/or social privacy controls.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS

  • Nothing to report this quarter.

EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES:

  • These projects involved multiple undergraduate and graduate students.

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