HCC: Privacy in Home-Based Ubicomp

该项目解决了基于普适计算（ubicomp）的家庭医疗保健的严峻隐私挑战，弱势群体面临强制技术亲密关系的风险。它将采用定义明确的“价值设计”方法来创建一个创新的工具包，可供我们的老龄化人口、他们的护理人员和设计师使用，以确保家庭生活中的隐私和自主权。无处不在的计算将技术集成到我们的日常环境中，通过创建连续的、详细的数据流，从根本上改变了隐私。Ubicomp将产生一个有意识的、活跃的、反应灵敏的环境。它通过无处不在的传感器分布创造了一个有意识的环境。它是活动的，因为传感器数据被处理和检查。它是响应性的，因为该技术基于处理过的数据对环境起作用。由于ubicomp是网络化的，因此可以从地球上任何连接的地点观察到数据和决策。隐私的设计是复杂的，因为隐私是一种社会建构的价值，在不同的环境和个人中有很大的不同。目前，隐私设计要求用户了解ubicomp技术的社会含义，要求设计尊重隐私，并阐明具体的技术设计要求。隐私设计也需要一个精通隐私增强技术、安全机制、对隐私有深刻理解的ubicomp设计师。这两者都不是合理的负担。这项研究将减轻双方的负担。该项目将创建一个系统，用于设计高度定制的增强隐私的ubicomp。隐私框架由三个集成的、互补的组件组成。第一个组件是一个参与者工具，用于引出个人老年人的隐私问题，使非技术人员更容易表达隐私问题。第二种是设计师工具，可以将老问题转化为技术选择或建议。第三个是用于ubicomp传感器的隐私增强代码库，它极大地简化了隐私敏感设计，包括数据过滤、访问控制列表创建和加密隐私增强技术的集成。该项目的更广泛影响包括：(1)开发多学科课程，将有超过40名学生参与研究项目；(2)一个生活实验室，使商科、护理、卫生和其他学科的研究和课程活动成为可能；(3)扩大隐私增强家庭医疗保健的潜力；(4)开发工具，以确保老年人在家庭监控和保护他们的隐私和自主权方面做出自己的选择；(5)设计工具和代码库，使ubicomp设计者能够轻松地在居家ubicomp中嵌入适当的隐私增强和强大的安全保护机制，而无需隐私或安全方面的专业知识。

This project addresses the acute privacy challenge of home-based health care based on ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, where vulnerable populations risk enforced technological intimacy. It will employ the well-defined "design for values" method to create an innovative toolkit that can be used by our aging population, their caregivers, and designers to ensure privacy and autonomy in home-based ubicomp.Ubiquitous computing integrates technology into our everyday environments, fundamentally altering privacy by creating continuous, detailed data flows. Ubicomp will result in an environment that is aware, active and responsive. It creates an aware environment through the pervasive distribution of sensors. It is active because sensor data are processed and examined. It is responsive in that the technology acts on the environment based on processed data. As ubicomp is networked, the data and decisions have the potential to be observed from any connected locale on the planet.Design for privacy is complicated by the fact that privacy is a socially constructed value that differs significantly across environments and individuals. Currently, design for privacy requires a user who understands the social implications of ubicomp technology, demands a design that respects privacy, and articulates specific technical design requirements. Design for privacy also requires a ubicomp designer with mastery of privacy enhancing technologies, security mechanisms, and a profound understanding of privacy. Neither of these is a reasonable burden. This research will decrease the burdens for both parties.This project will create a system for designing highly customized privacy¬-enhancing ubicomp. The privacy framework that consists of three integrated, complementary components. The first component is a participant tool for eliciting individual elder privacy concerns, making it easy for non-technical people to express privacy concerns. The second is a designer tool that translates elder concerns into technical choices or suggestions. The third is a privacy-enhancing code library for ubicomp sensors that vastly simplifies privacy-sensitive design, including data filtering, access control list creation, and integration of cryptographic privacy enhancing technologies.The broader impacts of the project include: (1) development of multidisciplinary curriculum that will engage over 40 students in the research project; (2) a living laboratory to enable research and curricular activities in business, nursing, health and other disciplines; (3) expansion of the potential for privacy-enhanced home-based healthcare; (4) the development of tools to ensure that older people make their own choices about home monitoring and protection of their privacy and autonomy, and (5) a design tool and code library that enable ubicomp designers to easily embed appropriate privacy-enhancing and strong security-protecting mechanisms in home-based ubicomp without requiring expertise in privacy or security.