READ ME File For 'Dataset for “Consent Mechanisms in Privacy Engineering”’

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D2003

ReadMe Author: Dorota Filipczuk, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the thesis entitled `Consent Mechanisms in Privacy Engineering’
AWARDED BY: University of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 6 December 2021

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA

This dataset contains the following directories:

* Chapter 3 - this part of the dataset is the experimental data collected as part of a user study. The results of the study have been presented in Chapter 3 of the thesis. Specifically:
- "raw_data.pdf” file contains all the raw data collected from participants,
- “survey-screenshots.pdf” file contains screenshots of the survey completed by the participants as part of the experiment,
- "participant_info.pdf" contains the participants information sheet and consent form,
- “web-mirror-chrome-extension” folder contains the code for the browser extension developed for the purpose of the user study.

* Chapter 4 - this part of the dataset is the experimental data collected as part of a user study and was used to generate the figures included in Chapter 4 of the thesis. Specifically:
- "raw_data" folder contains all the raw data obtained and which were used to produce the Figures,
- "scenarios.csv" file contains the pre-defined quotes for specific permission settings used in the TIOLI
and MN treatments,
- "participant_info.pdf" contains the participants information sheet.

* Chapter 5 - this part of the dataset is the experimental data collected as part of the evaluation of the algorithms proposed in the thesis and was used to generate the figures included in Chapter 4 of the thesis. Specifically:
- “code” folder contains the Python implementation of the algorithms as well as the code used for generation of synthetic data (graphs and constraints),
- “dataset” folder contains the results of the experiments (runtimes and utility values) for the given synthetic input data.


Date of data collection: September, 2016 - June, 2021

Information about geographic location of data collection: Southampton, U.K.

Licence:
Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence.


Related projects/Funders:
Dorota Filipczuk was funded by the EPSRC Doctoral Award (ECS DTC), ref.: 1807923.


Related publication:
Filipczuk, D. (2021) 'Consent Mechanisms in Privacy Engineering’. PhD Thesis, 
University of Southampton, Southampton.


Date that the file was created: 18 October, 2021.