TY - GEN
T1 - Advocating for Users' Privacy Protections
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services: Expanding the Horizon of Mobile Interaction, MobileHCI 2020
AU - Sharma, Tanusree
AU - Wang, Tian
AU - Bashir, Masooda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Owner/Author.
PY - 2020/5/10
Y1 - 2020/5/10
N2 - Mobile apps are being utilized in different regions around the world for contract tracing during this COVID-19 pandemic and many of these apps require personal information to be shared. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated how critical it is that we embrace virus-response opportunities given to us through technology, but we should also keep in mind that while we use these novel technologies to combat the pandemic, we must also ensure that users' privacy and security is contained. Therefore, in this project we assessed privacy controls that are offered in COVID-19 apps and what users are identifying to be their preferences if they were to adopt a COVID-19 app. Our results show that while the majority of the apps did not provide adequate privacy controls, users do consider these to be important factors in their decision making. In addition, we believe our preliminary findings can provide foundation for inclusive privacy features that is human-centered.
AB - Mobile apps are being utilized in different regions around the world for contract tracing during this COVID-19 pandemic and many of these apps require personal information to be shared. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated how critical it is that we embrace virus-response opportunities given to us through technology, but we should also keep in mind that while we use these novel technologies to combat the pandemic, we must also ensure that users' privacy and security is contained. Therefore, in this project we assessed privacy controls that are offered in COVID-19 apps and what users are identifying to be their preferences if they were to adopt a COVID-19 app. Our results show that while the majority of the apps did not provide adequate privacy controls, users do consider these to be important factors in their decision making. In addition, we believe our preliminary findings can provide foundation for inclusive privacy features that is human-centered.
KW - Human-Centered Design
KW - Mobile apps
KW - Privacy
KW - Security
KW - Trust
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U2 - 10.1145/3406324.3410711
DO - 10.1145/3406324.3410711
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102116696
T3 - Extended Abstracts - 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services: Expanding the Horizon of Mobile Interaction, MobileHCI 2020
BT - Extended Abstracts - 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 5 October 2020 through 9 October 2020
ER -