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

Submitted by Serge Egelman on Wed, 09/14/2022 - 2:26pm

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

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

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

PUBLICATIONS

  • Accepted for publication:
    Alisa Frik, Julia Bernd, and Serge Egelman. 2022. A Model of Contextual Factors Affecting Older Adults' Information-Sharing Decisions in the US. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. Just Accepted (May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1145/3557888
  • Accepted for publication:
    Julia Bernd, Ruba Abu-Salma, Junghyun Choy, and Alisa Frik. Balancing Power Dynamics in Smart Homes: Nannies' Perspectives on How Cameras Reflect and Affect Relationships. In Proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '22). USENIX Assoc., Berkeley, CA, USA. 2022.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Our paper "A Model of Contextual Factors Affecting Older-Adults' Information-Sharing Decisions in the US", describing our comprehensive model of older adults' decision-making about online information-sharing (authors Alisa Frik, Julia Bernd, and Serge Egelman; details in previous reports), has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

  • Our paper "Balancing Power Dynamics in Smart Homes: Nannies' Perspectives on How Cameras Reflect and Affect Relationships", describing specific privacy considerations for domestic workers in smart homes and their implications for socio-technical design (authors Julia Bernd, Ruba Abu-Salma, Junghyun Choy, and Alisa Frik; details in January 2022 report), has been accepted to SOUPS (the USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security), and we will present it in August.

  • With the same authors, we submitted a second paper, "Nanny Cams But No Nanny TVs: Smart Home Device Purposes and Domestic Worker Privacy", focusing in part on the design implications of the wide variation in context-dependent privacy perspectives across different types of smart home devices, to (Po)PETS (as mentioned in our April 2022 report). It was not accepted; we are planning to conduct an additional analysis of a separate set of interviews we did with parents who employ nannies, to identify any design-relevant disconnects between the expectations of the two sides.

  • As we described in our April 2022 report, we are building on the research described above and 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.

    • The first study will consist of a broad survey (in two languages and four countries) designed to quantify people's experiences of smart devices in their own homes vs. the homes of other people, in particular whether and how current device designs may be able to allow for consideration of bystander privacy. We have finished developing the survey instrument and have submitted requests for exemption from IRB review to our respective institutions.

    • We are continuing to work on designing a second survey 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.

    • We submitted a work-in-progress paper describing the design of the two studies to the 4th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity. It was accepted, and we will be presenting it at the Symposium in September. Among other things, we hope that the presentation will provide an opportunity to discuss how device designs can better account for contextual privacy norms with other researchers who have been working in this area.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS

  • Nothing to report this quarter.

EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES:

  • These projects involved multiple undergraduate and graduate students.

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