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Physicalizing Security and Privacy: Exploring Physically Intuitive Design to Build Users’ Trust in Using Ubiquitous Sensors
Physicalizing Security and Privacy: Exploring Physically Intuitive Design to Build Users’ Trust in Using Ubiquitous Sensors
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Do, Youngwook
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Abowd, Gregory D.
Das, Sauvik
Das, Sauvik
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Abstract
End-users often experience difficulties in using the security and privacy (S&P) operations of sensor-enabled devices in everyday environments. They find a disparity between how the S&P operations actually work and how they perceive the operations work. This disparity erodes their trust in using sensor-enabled devices, which, in turn, raises their security and privacy concerns about the devices. In my work, I present Physicalizing Security and Privacy, a novel approach that leverages tangible and physical operations to address these concerns and engender users' trust in using ubiquitous sensors. This approach provides end-users with perceptible assurance about how S&P operations work, narrowing the chasm between how S&P operations actually work and how people think they work. I showcase a series of projects employing this approach–Smart Webcam Cover, Powering for Privacy, and On-demand RFID–to demonstrate how to design and develop solutions depending on sensor type and context of usage. Lastly, I summarize design recommendations to implement tangible and physical solutions, unresolved challenges, and future directions.
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Date Issued
2023-07-30
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