Casablanca

An architecture for privacy-sensitive ubiquitous computing

“…Our survey and interviews, as well previous work on ubicomp in the home [37], have suggested a social need to avoid potentially embarrassing situations, undesired intrusions, and unwanted social obligations. For example, it is not uncommon for an individual to answer with a white lie when asked on the phone what they are doing.…”

“…The end-user needs for Confab were gathered through scenariobased interviews on location-enhanced applications we performed with twenty people of various ages and computer expertise; extended analysis of freeform comments we performed on a previous survey of 130 people on ubicomp privacy preferences [49]; analysis of research papers [8,14,32,35,37,38,43,49] on hypothetical and actual usage of emerging ubicomp systems where privacy was an issue, as well as postings on a message board [1] by nurses working in hospitals using locator systems; analysis of several proposed and existing privacy protection laws [2, 22,27]; and analysis of several different design guidelines for privacy-sensitive systems [5,9,55], in particular the fair information practices [48,70] and asymmetric information flows [41]. A full discussion of the results of our analysis are beyond the scope of this paper.…”

“…[68] and in the nurse message board [1], where a lack of a clear value proposition led to resentment and sometimes outright rejection of a system. Second, people want simple control over and feedback about who can see what information about them [1,14,35,37,38]. For example, the PARCTab system provided no feedback about what information was being revealed to others [38,61].…”

“…The genres of applications we have examined include messaging systems, such as cell phones, instant messenger, SMS, and messaging within [52] and between homes [37]; guides for exploration and navigation [4,54]; finders for finding people, places, or things [7,31]; group awareness displays [20,31]; augmented-reality games [25,29]; contextual tagging and retrieval, including personal memory aids [12,46,59], associating topical information with places [13,24,56,62]; situational realtime information (such as local weather or traffic); and enhanced safety for individuals and emergency responders [26,51].…”

roomXT: Advanced Video Communication for Joint Dining over a Distance

“…At the remote side, the transmitted information is visualized in the user's local environment via an ambient display. A similar approach was taken by Hindus et al [7] with the Lampshade Intentional Presence Lamp (IPL), a decorative artifact that serves both as a lamp and a communication device. In contrast to the FamilyPlanter, the presence of people is not automatically captured.…”