SaTC: CORE: Small: Collaborative: Leveraging community oversight to enhance collective efficacy for privacy and security

这项研究关注的是一群人如何合作来保护他们的隐私。研究人员将研究人们如何互相帮助来管理他们的数字隐私和安全。在线下，人们通过分享故事或交换建议，非正式地支持彼此做出隐私和安全决策，但隐私技术设计并没有反映这些社会过程。该项目建立在对集体效能和公民参与解决问题的社会科学研究的基础上，并开发了一个社区监督模型，以帮助人们集体管理他们的数字隐私和安全。研究人员将在移动智能手机的背景下评估这个模型，并为相互连接的用户群体设计一个移动应用程序的原型，以分享和提供关于一系列移动隐私和安全设置的反馈。对人们的研究也将提供关于如何支持不同群体围绕移动安全和安全进行沟通和协作的见解。个人代表他人进行干预的意愿被称为集体效能，社区监督模型的目的是支持和改善相互关联的个人或现有社区（如家庭、朋友、同事）之间的这种结果，以增强他们的数字隐私和安全。这项工作通过提供社区监督模型并演示如何将该模型转化为社会技术设计做出了理论贡献。用户研究将为影响用户参与数字隐私和安全社区监督的社会和技术因素提供有价值的见解。通过在该领域实施和部署移动应用程序，研究人员将评估用户如何与技术工件以及彼此之间进行交互，为未来的系统提供有价值的设计指南。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research concerns how groups of people can cooperate to protect their privacy. The researchers will study how people can help one another to manage their digital privacy and security. Offline, people support each other informally to make privacy and security decisions, by sharing stories or exchanging advice, but technology designs for privacy do not reflect these social processes. This project builds on social science research on collective efficacy and citizen participation in problem solving, and develops a model of community oversight to help groups of people collectively manage their digital privacy and security. The researchers will evaluate this model within the context of mobile smartphones, and prototype a mobile app for groups of interconnected users to share and provide feedback regarding a range of mobile privacy and security settings. Research with people will also provide insight into how to support different groups to communicate and collaborate around mobile security and safety.The willingness of individuals to intervene on others' behalf is known as collective efficacy, and the intention of the model of community oversight is to support and improve this outcome among interconnected individuals or existing communities such as families, friends, co-workers in a manner that enhances their digital privacy and security. The work makes a theoretical contribution by offering a model of community oversight and demonstrating how this model might be translated into sociotechnical design. The user studies will provide valuable insights into the social and technical factors that impact user participation in community oversight for digital privacy and security. Through the implementation and deployment of the mobile app in the field, the researchers will evaluate how users interact with the technology artifact and with each other, providing valuable design guidelines for future systems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.