TY - GEN
T1 - Privacy nudges for mobile applications
T2 - 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016
AU - Zhang, Bo
AU - Xu, Heng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/2/27
Y1 - 2016/2/27
N2 - To assist users' privacy decision-making with mobile applications, prior research has investigated ways of enhancing information transparency, via improving privacy permission interfaces. This study takes a soft paternalism approach by proposing two interface cues as "privacy nudges" in a mobile permission interface: The frequency nudge indicates how frequently user information is used, and the social nudge presents the percentage of other users approving certain data permission. We compared the effects of these privacy nudges on users' creepiness emotion and privacy attitudes, through a between-subject online experimental study (n=387). Our results suggest that privacy nudges are effective in altering privacy attitudes, but the direction of effects depends on the nudge's framing valence. In addition, the creepiness emotion mediates the relationship between nudging and privacy attitudes.
AB - To assist users' privacy decision-making with mobile applications, prior research has investigated ways of enhancing information transparency, via improving privacy permission interfaces. This study takes a soft paternalism approach by proposing two interface cues as "privacy nudges" in a mobile permission interface: The frequency nudge indicates how frequently user information is used, and the social nudge presents the percentage of other users approving certain data permission. We compared the effects of these privacy nudges on users' creepiness emotion and privacy attitudes, through a between-subject online experimental study (n=387). Our results suggest that privacy nudges are effective in altering privacy attitudes, but the direction of effects depends on the nudge's framing valence. In addition, the creepiness emotion mediates the relationship between nudging and privacy attitudes.
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U2 - 10.1145/2818048.2820073
DO - 10.1145/2818048.2820073
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963502637
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1676
EP - 1690
BT - Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 27 February 2016 through 2 March 2016
ER -