Paper Info
Title
Raising User Awareness about Privacy Threats in Participatory Sensing Applications through Graphical Warnings
Abstract
Mobile phones are increasingly leveraged as sensor platforms to collect information about user's context. The collected sensor readings can however reveal personal and sensitive information about the users and hence put their privacy at stake. In prior work, we have proposed different user interfaces allowing users to select the degree of granularity at which the sensor readings are shared in order to protect their privacy. In this paper, we aim at further increasing user awareness about potential privacy risks and investigate the introduction of picture-based warnings based on their current privacy settings. Depending on their privacy conception and the proposed warnings, users can then adapt their settings or leave them unchanged. We evaluate the picture-based warnings by conducting a user study involving 30 participants. The results show that more than 70% of the participants would change their settings after having seen the picture-based warnings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2536853.2536861
MoMM
Keywords
Field
DocType
proposed warning,potential privacy risk,graphical warnings,raising user awareness,privacy threats,participatory sensing applications,privacy conception,current privacy setting,different user,increasing user awareness,user study,sensor reading,sensor platform,picture-based warning,privacy,mobile computing
Mobile computing,Internet privacy,Computer science,Computer security,User awareness,User interface,Information privacy,Information sensitivity,Participatory sensing,Privacy software
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.42
28
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Delphine Christin132517.80
Martin Michalak240.42
Matthias Hollick375097.29