SaTC-EDU: EAGER: Development and Evaluation of Privacy Education Tools via Open Collaboration

随着互联网的重要性日益增长，开发教育最终用户提高其在线隐私意识的方法和技术至关重要。然而，基于网络的网络隐私教育工具的开发还处于初级阶段。涉及专业人员的传统解决方案可能会使工具开发成本高昂。目前也不清楚这些教育工具对普通用户，特别是很少处理隐私问题的新手用户的激励、鼓舞和/或有效性。通过一名计算机科学家和两名社会科学家之间的跨学科研究，该项目旨在利用小组外包和众包方法来开发有效的在线隐私教育工具。研究活动包括：(1)设计新的方法，从非专家用户群体中产生集体智慧，以开发隐私教育工具的创新想法；(2)调查能够为隐私培训开发创造性和高质量想法的WISE群体的主要特征；(3)开发方法，提高非专家群体产生的想法的原创性和实用性；以及(4)整合小组外包、众包和专家意见来评估开发的隐私培训工具的有效性。这个跨学科、高风险、高回报的项目将极大地推动安全/隐私和社会科学的研究。研究成果将通过适合计算机科学、艺术与文学学院和MBA学生的课程材料广泛传播。

As the Internet grows in importance, it is vital to develop methods and techniques for educating end-users to improve their awareness of online privacy. However, the development of Web-based education tools for online privacy is still in the early stage. Traditional solutions involving professionals can make the tool development costly. It is also not clear how motivating, inspiring, and/or effective these education tools are to general users, especially novice users who have rarely dealt with privacy issues. Through interdisciplinary research between a computer scientist and two social scientists, this project aims to exploit both group-sourcing and crowdsourcing approaches to develop effective education tools for online privacy. Research activities include: (1) designing novel methods to generate collective wisdom from non-expert user groups for the development of innovative ideas of privacy education tools; (2) investigating the main characteristics of a wise group that is capable of developing creative and high-quality ideas for privacy training; (3) developing methods to enhance the originality and practicality of the ideas generated by the non-expert groups; and (4) integrating group-sourcing, crowdsourcing, and experts' opinions to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed privacy training tools.This interdisciplinary, high-risk, high-payoff project will dramatically advance research in security/privacy and social science. The research results will be disseminated broadly through curricular materials appropriate for computer science, College of Arts and Letters, and MBA students.