Professor Susanne Bødker, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.
Professor Pam Briggs, Dean of the School of Psychology and Sports Science at Northumbria University.
Dr. Lynne Coventry, director of the Psychology and Communication Technology Lab (PaCTLab) at Northumbria University.
Niels Raabjerg Mathiassen, Ph.d.-student at Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.
Dr. Linda Little, Senior Lecturer within the Division of Psychology and a member of the PaCTLab at Northumbria University.
There has been an emerging interest for security and privacy issues in the field of HCI. However, this research has focussed primarily on the role of third parties to secure the privacy of confidential information within a business setting, such as financial accounts or medical records or the role of security systems to prevent viruses and other malware attacking computer systems. The role of security and privacy within a social context is a more recent research topic. The consequences for the family are a particularly under-researched. Social networking sites, mobile phones and location based tracking all bring new opportunities for interaction and communication however, they also create new challenges for privacy, security and trust which warrant further investigation. For instance, what do children understand about privacy and how does their behaviour impact their own privacy and security, but also that of the family (as the parent is increasingly held responsible for the actions of the child). How can we express security and privacy settings in terms that are visible and understandable to different members of the family, should/can breaches of these settings be reported to the responsible adult. What do teenagers understand about the consequences of publishing so much information about themselves on the Internet. What theories/models of privacy are appropriate for the online social network world? Is it appropriate to be investing user models? There are many questions still to explore which this workshop will give participants the opportunity to share their thoughts and explore what the next steps for research should be.
The workshop is a full day workshop hold in conjunction with NordiCHI 2010 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Organisers will work to solicit papers exploring security from a user-centered perspective. Such contributions may originate from HCI, various branches of user-centered, participatory, value-based, human-centered, experience-based design, or from security. We also encourage psychologists, sociologists, educationalists etc. whom may not traditionally attend HCI conferences to bring their perspectives, and of course designers.
We invite participants to bring forth contributions such as:
We invite position papers up to 2 pages long in ACM SIGCHI Publications Format, reporting on recent user research, experiments, studies of the field, theoretical accounts, and so forth. Postion papers should include their top 10 references relevant to the workshop. The reference section of the papers can exceed the pages limit.
Submissions should be e-mailed to:
Preliminary...!
Feel free to contact Lynne Coventry if you have questions about the workshop: