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Authors: Eva-Maria Schomakers ; Chantal Lidynia and Martina Ziefle

Affiliation: RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Keyword(s): Privacy, Privacy Protection, Mental Models, User Interface Design, Privacy Literacy, k-anonymity.

Abstract: Mental models are simplified representations of the reality that help users to interact with complex systems. In our digitized world in which data is collected everywhere, most users feel overtaxed by the demands for privacy protection. Designing systems along the language of the users and their mental models, is a key heuristic for understandable design. In an explorative approach, focus groups and interviews with 18 participants were conducted to elicit mental models of internet users for privacy protection. Privacy protection is perceived as complex and exhausting. The protection of one’s identity and, correspondingly, anonymity are central aspects. One research question is how scalable privacy protection can be visualized. Physical concepts, like walls and locks, are not applicable to the idea of adjustable privacy protection. The concept of kanonymity – visualized by a group of people from which the user is not distinguishable – can be related to by most of the particip ants and seems to work well as symbolization, but it is not yet internalized as mental model. Initially, users see privacy protection as binary – either one is protected or not. Thus, the concept of adjustable privacy protection is new to lay-people and no mental models exist, yet. (More)

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Schomakers, E.; Lidynia, C. and Ziefle, M. (2018). Hidden within a Group of People - Mental Models of Privacy Protection. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - IoTBDS; ISBN 978-989-758-296-7; ISSN 2184-4976, SciTePress, pages 85-94. DOI: 10.5220/0006678700850094

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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - IoTBDS
TI - Hidden within a Group of People - Mental Models of Privacy Protection
SN - 978-989-758-296-7
IS - 2184-4976
AU - Schomakers, E.
AU - Lidynia, C.
AU - Ziefle, M.
PY - 2018
SP - 85
EP - 94
DO - 10.5220/0006678700850094
PB - SciTePress