Process Mining and Perceived Privacy Violations: A Pilot-Study

Evelyn Zuidema-Tempel, Faiza Bukhsh, Robin Effing, Jos van Hillegersberg

2023

Abstract

Despite the existence of various methods and abstraction techniques to reduce the privacy risk of process models generated by process mining algorithms, it is unclear how process mining stakeholders perceive privacy violations. In this pilot-study various process model visualisations were shown to 6 stakeholders of a travel expense claim process. While changing the abstraction levels of these visualisations, the stakeholders were asked whether they perceived a violation of their privacy. The results show that there are differences in how individual stakeholders perceive privacy violations of process models generated via process mining algorithms. Results differ per type of visualization, type of privacy risk reducing methods, changes of abstraction level and stakeholder role. To reduce the privacy risk, the interviewees suggested to include an authorization table in the process mining tool, communicate the goal of the analysis with all stakeholders, and validate the analysis with a privacy officer. It is suggested that future research focuses on discussing and validating process visualisations and privacy risk reducing methods and techniques with various process mining stakeholders in organisations. This is expected to reduce perceived violations and prevents developing techniques that are aimed at reducing privacy risk but are not considered as such by stakeholders.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zuidema-Tempel E., Bukhsh F., Effing R. and van Hillegersberg J. (2023). Process Mining and Perceived Privacy Violations: A Pilot-Study. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-648-4, SciTePress, pages 289-296. DOI: 10.5220/0011745200003467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis23,
author={Evelyn Zuidema-Tempel and Faiza Bukhsh and Robin Effing and Jos van Hillegersberg},
title={Process Mining and Perceived Privacy Violations: A Pilot-Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2023},
pages={289-296},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011745200003467},
isbn={978-989-758-648-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Process Mining and Perceived Privacy Violations: A Pilot-Study
SN - 978-989-758-648-4
AU - Zuidema-Tempel E.
AU - Bukhsh F.
AU - Effing R.
AU - van Hillegersberg J.
PY - 2023
SP - 289
EP - 296
DO - 10.5220/0011745200003467
PB - SciTePress