Towards privacy-aware exploration of archived personal emails
Towards privacy-aware exploration of archived personal emails
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DOI：
10.1007/s00799-024-00394-5
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发表时间：
2024-02-21
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Hopfgartner，Frank
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作者：
Bartliff，Zoe;Kim，Yunhyong;Hopfgartner，Frank
本文探讨了隐私措施，如匿名化和聚合过程中的电子邮件收藏，可以影响电子邮件可视化的研究，特别是在人文和社会科学的感知有用性。这项工作的目的是告知档案管理员和数据管理员，他们面临着登记和审查日益庞大和复杂的个人数字收藏的挑战。本文中的研究提供了一个集中的用户研究，以调查数据可视化作为数据的隐私意识管理和数据的研究价值最大化之间的中介的有用性。研究是与研究人员和档案管理员一起进行的，他们对使用、理解和/或存档数据以获得有意义的结果有既得利益。参与者倾向于认为电子邮件视觉化是有用的，研究中所有视觉化的平均评分为4.281（7分），其中山脉图和单词树的评分高于平均水平。该研究表明，虽然参与者对电子邮件数据中识别个人的信息表达了强烈的愿望，但他们认为可视化对于他们的研究和/或工作几乎同样有用。
This paper examines how privacy measures, such as anonymisation and aggregation processes for email collections, can affect the perceived usefulness of email visualisations for research, especially in the humanities and social sciences. The work is intended to inform archivists and data managers who are faced with the challenge of accessioning and reviewing increasingly sizeable and complex personal digital collections. The research in this paper provides a focused user study to investigate the usefulness of data visualisation as a mediator between privacy-aware management of data and maximisation of research value of data. The research is carried out with researchers and archivists with vested interest in using, making sense of, and/or archiving the data to derive meaningful results. Participants tend to perceive email visualisations as useful, with an average rating of 4.281 (out of 7) for all the visualisations in the study, with above average ratings for mountain graphs and word trees. The study shows that while participants voice a strong desire for information identifying individuals in email data, they perceive visualisations as almost equally useful for their research and/or work when aggregation is employed in addition to anonymisation.