Evaluating the Readability of Privacy Policies in Mobile Environments
Evaluating the Readability of Privacy Policies in Mobile Environments
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评估移动环境中隐私政策的可读性
DOI：
10.4018/jmhci.2011010104
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
Ravi I. Singh
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作者：
James Miller;M. Sumeeth;Ravi I. Singh
最近的研究表明，就对普通互联网用户的理解而言，当前的“品种”隐私政策是一个重大挑战。由于显示的限制，很容易产生这样的猜想，即当这些策略转移到移动环境中时，这种理解水平应该会下降。本文探讨的问题是，当隐私策略在移动环境中与桌面环境中查看时，理解能力会降低多少，这种减少是否会使它们在当前格式下变得毫无用处？它报道了一个正式的基于对象的实验，该实验试图评估在互联网上找到的但在移动环境中呈现的隐私政策声明的可读性。这项实验使用了从互联网上十个最受欢迎的网站收集的50名参与者和隐私政策。它使用完形填空测试来评估受试者理解这些隐私政策内容的能力。
Recent work has suggested that the current "breed" of privacy policy represents a significant challenge in terms of comprehension to the average Internet-user. Due to display limitations, it is easy to represent the conjecture that this comprehension level should drop when these policies are moved into a mobile environment. This paper explores the question of how much does comprehension decrease when privacy policies are viewed on mobile versus desktop environments and does this decrease make them useless in their current format? It reports on a formal subject-based experiment, which seeks to evaluate how readable are privacy policy statements found on the Internet but presented in mobile environments. This experiment uses fifty participants and privacy policies collected from ten of the most popular web sites on the Internet. It evaluates, using a Cloze test, the subject's ability to comprehend the content of these privacy policies.