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Negotiation as an interaction mechanism for deciding app permissions

Negotiation as an interaction mechanism for deciding app permissions
Negotiation as an interaction mechanism for deciding app permissions
On the Android platform, apps make use of personal data as part of their business model, trading location, contacts, photos and more for app use. Few people are particularly aware of the permission settings or make changes to them. We hypothesize that both the difficulty in checking permission settings for all apps on a device, along with the lack of flexibility in deciding what happens to one's data, makes the perceived cost to protect one's privacy too high. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of a study that explores what happens when permission settings are more discretional at install time. We present the results of a pilot experiment, in which we ask users to negotiate which data they are happy to share, and we show that this results in higher user satisfaction than the typical take-it-or-leave-it setting. Our preliminary findings suggest negotiating consent is a powerful interaction mechanism that engages users and can enable them to strike a balance between privacy and pricing concerns.
interaction, mobile, negotiation, permissions, privacy
2012-2019
Association for Computing Machinery
Baarslag, Tim
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Alan, Alper T.
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Gomer, Richard C.
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Liccardi, Ilaria
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Marreiros, Helia
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Gerding, Enrico
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Baarslag, Tim
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Alan, Alper T.
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Gomer, Richard C.
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Gerding, Enrico
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Baarslag, Tim, Alan, Alper T., Gomer, Richard C., Liccardi, Ilaria, Marreiros, Helia, Gerding, Enrico and schraefel, m.c. (2016) Negotiation as an interaction mechanism for deciding app permissions. In CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 2012-2019 . (doi:10.1145/2851581.2892340).

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On the Android platform, apps make use of personal data as part of their business model, trading location, contacts, photos and more for app use. Few people are particularly aware of the permission settings or make changes to them. We hypothesize that both the difficulty in checking permission settings for all apps on a device, along with the lack of flexibility in deciding what happens to one's data, makes the perceived cost to protect one's privacy too high. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of a study that explores what happens when permission settings are more discretional at install time. We present the results of a pilot experiment, in which we ask users to negotiate which data they are happy to share, and we show that this results in higher user satisfaction than the typical take-it-or-leave-it setting. Our preliminary findings suggest negotiating consent is a powerful interaction mechanism that engages users and can enable them to strike a balance between privacy and pricing concerns.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 2016
Venue - Dates: 2016 CHI Conference: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '16), , San Jose, United States, 2016-05-07 - 2016-05-12
Keywords: interaction, mobile, negotiation, permissions, privacy
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 394404
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/394404
PURE UUID: f150dd0f-4a20-439d-bda1-137b45daf297
ORCID for Tim Baarslag: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1662-3910
ORCID for Richard C. Gomer: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8866-3738
ORCID for Enrico Gerding: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7200-552X
ORCID for m.c. schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 25 May 2016 10:38
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:28

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Author: Tim Baarslag ORCID iD
Author: Alper T. Alan
Author: Richard C. Gomer ORCID iD
Author: Ilaria Liccardi
Author: Helia Marreiros
Author: Enrico Gerding ORCID iD
Author: m.c. schraefel ORCID iD

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