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Understanding engagement with the privacy domain through design research
Author(s) -
Vasalou Asimina,
Oostveen AnneMarie,
Bowers Chris,
Beale Russell
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23260
Subject(s) - internet privacy , privacy by design , framing (construction) , privacy software , participatory design , computer science , information privacy , context (archaeology) , knowledge management , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , parallels , structural engineering , biology
This paper reports findings from participatory design research aimed at uncovering how technological interventions can engage users in the domain of privacy. Our work was undertaken in the context of a new design concept, “Privacy Trends”, whose aspiration is to foster technology users' digital literacy regarding ongoing privacy risks and elucidate how such risks fit within existing social, organizational, and political systems, leading to a longer‐term privacy concern. Our study reveals 2 challenges for privacy intervention design: the need to develop technology users' intrinsic motivations with the privacy domain and the importance of framing the concept of privacy within users' interests. Setting our study within a design context enables us to identify 4 design opportunities for fostering engagement with the privacy domain through technology design.