Expression of Interest:

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I am interested in privacy challenges in the field of quantified self and m-Health. Both related topics are mainly realized by mobile devices, due to the mobility and ubiquity as well as the connectivity with sensors collecting information like, e.g. Fitness bracelet, pulsimeter, body scales etc. New applications and services like Apple’s Health App or Google’s Fit are simplifying the aggregation and processing of personal (health) information. This requires new ways and concepts to ensure users’ privacy regarding those sensored personal information and also requires ideas about the user interface to support users in managing their privacy properly. On the workshop I’d like to collect and create new ideas to combine my research about default privacy settings with the discussed topics to work on a better user experience regarding privacy in the field of those m-Health and Quantified Self Apps.

Further, I was involved in the EU funded project PICOS, where we developed privacy- and user-friendly concepts for mobile communities. Results show that besides usable and good solutions to protect privacy, the users especially need to be supported in the configuration of privacy settings. Nowadays, interfaces are often overloaded or not transparent. This is sometimes due to the idea to give the users the maximum of freedom to configure their privacy settings. Often this results in users being unconcerned. They keep their default settings that supports service providers that do not want the users to deviate from permissive privacy settings. Therefore, the idea is to reduce the complexity of interface by identifying clusters in the different type of privacy settings. With less questions/settings one can deduce the others to offer a type of individual default settings that should be very close to the user’s wish and prevent an unwanted revelation of personal information. Especially on mobile device with a smaller screen size, the problem of complexity can be increased and even less transparency is the result.. Further, more and more tasks are done just on the smart phone, and this should also include the configuration of privacy settings, especially depending on the current context/location. This topic I also like to discuss on the workshop and I want to find inspiration for going on with this ideas on research collaborations.

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