Do Desperate Students Trade Their Privacy for a Hope? - An Evidence of the Privacy Settings Influence on the User Performance

Tomáš Obšívač, Hana Bydžovská, Michal Brandejs

2014

Abstract

Maintaining people's privacy should be the top priority not only in the context of Information Systems (IS) design. Sometimes, however, certain level of privacy can be traded for a gain in another IS quality or aspect. We present a real world example of IS with user maintained level of privacy and an evidence of its usage, correlated with users' performance. Recent students' and applicants' privacy settings in an educational IS were examined. According to our findings, a part of students voluntarily disclose their presence in the courses enrolled and on the examination dates registered. Surprisingly, the study results of the disclosed students are worse then the results of undisclosed ones. In the correspondence with our thesis, disclosed applicants have better entrance exam results.

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Obšívač T., Bydžovská H. and Brandejs M. (2014). Do Desperate Students Trade Their Privacy for a Hope? - An Evidence of the Privacy Settings Influence on the User Performance . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-029-1, pages 156-161. DOI: 10.5220/0004972101560161


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis14,
author={Tomáš Obšívač and Hana Bydžovská and Michal Brandejs},
title={Do Desperate Students Trade Their Privacy for a Hope? - An Evidence of the Privacy Settings Influence on the User Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={156-161},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004972101560161},
isbn={978-989-758-029-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Do Desperate Students Trade Their Privacy for a Hope? - An Evidence of the Privacy Settings Influence on the User Performance
SN - 978-989-758-029-1
AU - Obšívač T.
AU - Bydžovská H.
AU - Brandejs M.
PY - 2014
SP - 156
EP - 161
DO - 10.5220/0004972101560161