I
am interested in issues
of end-users' management and control of information in social systems,
with a focus on usability.
My goal is to to
deepen understanding of human interactions in
socio-technical systems, in order to build tools that satisfy
end-users' information management needs and yet, are intuitive and easy to
use for the general, non-technical user population of social systems.
In
my doctoral research, I use qualitative research methodologies
to
investigate users’ information sharing behavior in social systems, and
propose a model of privacy that can be used as a basis for building
improved privacy management tools. My
research consists of four phases:
-
A
grounded theory study aimed at identifying end-users specific
concerns, needs, and strategies with regard to sharing personal
information in various group contexts
-
Translating
privacy needs (social requirements) into a conceptual model of
information privacy (technical requirements), through development of a
privacy framework
-
Applying
the proposed privacy framework to a real world application, to
create a test bed
-
Empirical
evaluation of the resulted privacy management mechanism, in terms of
both utility and usability
Research
Interests:
§ Personal/Group
Information Management (PIM/GIM)
§ Social
Computing
§ Human
Computer Interaction (HCI)
§ Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work/Learning (CSCW/CSCL)
§ Usable
Privacy and Security