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View article: Don't Disturb My Circles! Boundary Preservation Is at the Center of Location-Sharing Concerns
Don't Disturb My Circles! Boundary Preservation Is at the Center of Location-Sharing Concerns Open
Past research on location-sharing technologies and social media has uncovered many types of privacy concerns such as informational privacy, impression management and interactional privacy. We interviewed 21 users and nonusers of location-s…
View article: Preserving Privacy in Awareness Systems
Preserving Privacy in Awareness Systems Open
Increasingly, software development teams comprise members who are geographically distributed across buildings, cities, countries or even continents. In order to raise the efficiency and effectiveness of such collaboration, team members nee…
View article: Participatory decision-making for cancer care in a high-risk sample of low income Mexican-American breast cancer survivors: The role of acculturation
Participatory decision-making for cancer care in a high-risk sample of low income Mexican-American breast cancer survivors: The role of acculturation Open
Background: Despite declining cancer incidence and mortality rates, Latina patients continue to have lower 5-year survival rates compared to their non-Hispanic white counterparts. Much of this difference has been attributed to lack of heal…
View article: Confident Privacy Decision-Making in IoT Environments
Confident Privacy Decision-Making in IoT Environments Open
Researchers are building Internet of Things (IoT) systems that aim to raise users’ privacy awareness, so that these users can make informed privacy decisions. However, there is a lack of empirical research on the practical implications of …
View article: IUIoT
IUIoT Open
As IoT devices begin to permeate our environment, our interaction with these devices are starting to have a real potential to transform our daily lives. Therefore, there exists an incredible opportunity for intelligent user interfaces to s…
View article: Tell Me Before You Stream Me
Tell Me Before You Stream Me Open
Live streaming is a new media format that simultaneously records and broadcasts in real time, in multiple channels including video, audio, and text. A new application area of live streaming is in the video game community, where players str…
View article: When SNS Privacy Settings Become Granular
When SNS Privacy Settings Become Granular Open
Privacy researchers have suggested various granular audience control techniques for users to manage the access to their disclosed information on social network sites. However, it is unclear how users adopt and utilize such techniques in da…
View article: Dashbell: A Low-cost Smart Doorbell System for Home Use
Dashbell: A Low-cost Smart Doorbell System for Home Use Open
Smart doorbells allow home owners to receive alerts when a visitor is at the door, see who the guest is, and communicate with the visitor from a smart device. They greatly improve people's life quality and contribute to the evolution of sm…
View article: Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing, Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences
Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing, Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we interact with our environment in domains as diverse as health, transportation, office buildings and our homes. In smart building environments, information captured about the building and …
View article: Lights, Camera, Action! Exploring Effects of Visual Distractions on Completion of Security Tasks
Lights, Camera, Action! Exploring Effects of Visual Distractions on Completion of Security Tasks Open
Human errors in performing security-critical tasks are typically blamed on the complexity of those tasks. However, such errors can also occur because of (possibly unexpected) sensory distractions. A sensory distraction that produces negati…
View article: Cross-Cultural Privacy Prediction
Cross-Cultural Privacy Prediction Open
The influence of cultural background on people’s privacy decisions is widely recognized. However, a cross-cultural approach to predicting privacy decisions is still lacking. Our paper presents a first integrated cross-cultural privacy pred…