Privacy Itch and Scratch

Mehta, Vikram; Bandara, Arosha K.; Price, Bob; Nuseibeh, Bashar

doi:10.1145/2851581.2892475

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“…There are few examples in the literature where concepts of tangibility (particularly immediacy and naturalness due to physicality) have been used to specifically help users regulate digital access to themselves in application contexts such as online social communications with known persons [21,29], setting mobile phone location [41], on-body data privacy warnings and controls [62], and securely unlocking a personal device [82].…”

Section: Tools For Privacy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tools For Privacy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…propose on-body privacy management [62]. They present the Privacy Band prototype: a forearm wearable that provides users with interactive capabilities to manage their cyber-physical privacy reactively in an adhoc, continuous and eyes free manner [62]. A lab-based user study with 11 participants has shown that it can help raise the privacy awareness of its' users through discreet haptic vibrations (metaphorical 'privacy itch') at distinct locations of their forearm and prompt them to react (or control) their privacy in an intuitive and immediate manner through direct haptic manipulation (metaphorical 'privacy scratch') [62].…”

Section: Tools For Privacy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The positioning of feedback input could be on the user's body or in the ambient environment around them. For instance, the forearm wearable Privacy Band informs the user of a potential violation through discreet haptic vibrations (metaphorical 'itch') on their body [62]. The appropriateness depends on the user's available attention and context.…”

Section: Interaction Modalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Privacy Care

Mehta

Gooch

Bandara

et al. 2021

ACM Trans. Internet Technol.

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The emergence of ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) environments has increased the risk of undesired access to individuals’ physical space or their information, anytime and anywhere, raising potentially serious privacy concerns. Individuals lack awareness and control of the vulnerabilities in everyday contexts and need support and care in regulating disclosures to their physical and digital selves. Existing GUI-based solutions, however, often feel physically interruptive, socially disruptive, time-consuming and cumbersome. To address such challenges, we investigate the user interaction experience and discuss the need for more tangible and embodied interactions for effective and seamless natural privacy management in everyday UbiComp settings. We propose the Privacy Care interaction framework, which is rooted in the literature of privacy management and tangible computing. Keeping users at the center, Awareness and Control are established as the core parts of our framework. This is supported with three interrelated interaction tenets: Direct, Ready-to-Hand, and Contextual . Direct refers to intuitiveness through metaphor usage. Ready-to-Hand supports granularity, non-intrusiveness, and ad hoc management, through periphery-to-center style attention transitions. Contextual supports customization through modularity and configurability. Together, they aim to provide experience of an embodied privacy care with varied interactions that are calming and yet actively empowering. The framework provides designers of such care with a basis to refer to, to generate effective tangible tools for privacy management in everyday settings. Through five semi-structured focus groups, we explore the privacy challenges faced by a sample set of 15 older adults (aged 60+) across their cyber-physical-social spaces. The results show conformity to our framework, demonstrating the relevance of the facets of the framework to the design of privacy management tools in everyday UbiComp contexts.

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Section: Tools For Privacy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tools For Privacy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Tools For Privacy Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Interaction Modalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Privacy Care

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Gooch

Bandara

et al. 2021

ACM Trans. Internet Technol.

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“…However, we see several other applications where itch feedback could be valuable. One example is Metha et al's envisioned privacy itch and scratch, where a user's arm starts to itch as a "privacy breach" occurs [37].…”

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confidence: 99%

ElectricItch

Pohl

Hornbæk

2018

Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Grabbing users' attention is a fundamental aspect of interactive systems. However, there is a disconnect between the ways our devices notify us and how our bodies do so naturally. In this paper, we explore the body's modality of itching as a way to provide such natural feedback. We create itching sensations via low-current electric stimulation, which allows us to quickly generate this sensation on demand. In a first study we explore the design space around itching and how changes in stimulation parameters influence the resulting sensation. In a second study we compare vibration feedback and itching integrated in a smartwatch form factor. We find that we can consistently induce itching sensations and that these are perceived as more activating and interrupting than vibrotactile stimuli. CCS Concepts •Human-centered computing → Haptic devices; Empirical studies in HCI;

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Is Privacy Controllable?

Shulman

Meyer

2019

Privacy and Identity Management. Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in the Age of Big Data

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One of the major views of privacy associates privacy with the control over information. This gives rise to the question how controllable privacy actually is. In this paper, we adapt certain formal methods of control theory and investigate the implications of a control theoretic analysis of privacy. We look at how control and feedback mechanisms have been studied in the privacy literature. Relying on the control theoretic framework, we develop a simplistic conceptual control model of privacy, formulate privacy controllability issues and suggest directions for possible research.

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Privacy Itch and Scratch

Cited by 14 publications

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