The Politics of Privacy Theories: Moving from Norms to Vulnerabilities

McDonald, Nora; Forte, Andrea

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376167

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“…Critical data studies scholars have emphasized that ethics discourse and research must incorporate explicit attention to power [ 27 , 61 ]. This is of particular relevance to the design of technologies for elder care [ 94 ].…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Control Matters in Elder Care Technology: Evidence and Direction for Designing It In

Berridge

Zhou

Lazar

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Studies fnd that older adults want control over how technologies are used in their care, but how it can be operationalized through design remains to be clarifed. We present fndings from a large survey (n=825) of a well-characterized U.S. online cohort that provides actionable evidence of the importance of designing for control over monitoring technologies. This uniquely large, age-diverse sample allows us to compare needs across age and other characteristics with insights about future users and current older adults (n=496 >64), including those concerned about their own memory loss (n=201). All fve control options, which are not currently enabled, were very or extremely important to most people across age. Findings indicate that comfort with a range of care technologies is contingent on having privacy-and other control-enabling options. We discuss opportunities for design to meet these user needs that demand course correction through attentive, creative work.

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Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Control Matters in Elder Care Technology: Evidence and Direction for Designing It In

Berridge

Zhou

Lazar

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…It may be especially important to create privacyfocused solutions for the most common situations of incidental use (e.g., 80% of survey participants were incidental users when visiting a friend or family member's home) or the situations in which users are especially likely to be worried about their privacy (e.g., statistical analysis indicated greater concern in short term rentals than other situations). However, as argued by McDonald and Forte [36], rather than prioritizing solutions based only on these norm-based metrics, solutions should also prioritize incidental users who are most vulnerable, even if they are not the majority.…”

Section: Meeting Incidental Users' Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I would have to evaluate their objections”: Privacy tensions between smart home device owners and incidental users

Cobb

Bhagavatula

Garrett

et al. 2021

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

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Recent research and articles in popular press have raised concerns about the privacy risks that smart home devices can create for incidental users—people who encounter smart home devices that are owned, controlled, and configured by someone else. In this work, we present the results of a user-centered investigation that explores incidental users’ experiences and the tensions that arise between device owners and incidental users. We conducted five focus group sessions through which we identified specific contexts in which someone might encounter other people’s smart home devices and the main concerns device owners and incidental users have in such situations. We used these findings to inform the design of a survey instrument, which we deployed to a demographically representative sample of 386 adults in the United States. Through this survey, we can better understand which contexts and concerns are most bothersome and how often device owners are willing to accommodate incidental users’ privacy preferences. We found some surprising trends in terms of what people are most worried about and what actions they are willing to take. For example, while participants who did not own devices themselves were often uncomfortable imagining them in their own homes, they were not as concerned about being affected by such devices in homes that they entered as part of their jobs. Participants showed interest in privacy solutions that might have a technical implementation component, but also frequently envisioned an open dialogue between incidental users and device owners to negotiate privacy accommodations.

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“…6.4.3 Accounting for the Contextual Nature of Privacy in VAT Development. Another promising approach to developing VATs through the Privacy by Design paradigm is to account for the contextual nature of privacy during the delivery of visual assistanceÐvisual privacy perceptions are greatly inluenced by the contexts in which they share their personal data [53,72,76]Ðthat result in personalized privacy-preserving services.…”

Section: Designingmentioning

confidence: 99%