RAPID: SaTC: Information Privacy Tensions and Decisions in Families during COVID-19.

COVID-19使世界陷入全球健康危机和自大萧条以来最大的经济衰退。允许经济开放的一个关键因素是接触追踪程序，该程序由智能手机上的应用程序组成，这些应用程序知道人们与谁接触过，并可以快速通知那些与COVID-19阳性结果接近的人。为了让联系人追踪发挥作用，社区中的很大一部分人必须使用这些应用程序，这引发了隐私问题。家庭中可能会出现紧张局势，因为每个成员都必须决定是否允许在智能手机上追踪接触者。任何个人的决定都可能影响整个家庭。例如，如果一家人一起去吃饭，其中一个成员开启了接触者追踪，整个家庭都会被功能性地追踪，导致家庭对接受接触者追踪的意见分歧。本研究的目的是了解这些家庭内的紧张关系的隐私如何影响接触tracing的选择，并提出解决方案，本研究旨在开发一个家庭层面的隐私过程模型，解释了一系列的活动和事件，导致家庭的隐私设置和使用的接触tracing的决定。本研究采用定性和定量的纵向调查，在两个时间点，在不同地区的父母-青少年的配对与强制性和自愿使用的接触追踪。该研究探讨了如何在家庭内部就使用接触者追踪技术的决定进行谈判，以及如何促进家庭内部对接触者追踪的接受。通过识别接触追踪接受的过程和障碍，本研究促进了家庭层面收养的多米诺骨牌效应。 由于每个家庭的身份都延伸到家庭之外，这种级联效应可以增加家庭更广泛的社交网络的采用。通过了解并减少家庭内采用的障碍，我们将能够帮助获得成功将COVID-19感染控制在可管理水平所需的关键用户群。该奖项反映了NSF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。

COVID-19 has thrown the world into a global health crisis and the largest economic downturn since the great depression. A key factor that allows economies to open is a contact tracing program consisting of apps on smartphones that know who people have been in contact with and can quickly notify those who have been near someone with a positive COVID-19 result. For contact tracing to work, a significant portion of the community must use the apps, raising privacy concerns. Tensions can arise in families as each member must decide whether to allow contact tracing on their smartphone. Any individual decision can affect the entire household. For example, if families go to dinner together and one member has contact tracing turned on, the entire family is functionally traced, leading to family disagreements about the acceptance of contact tracing. The objective of this research is to understand how these within-family tensions on privacy affect contact tracing choices and suggest solutions.This research seeks to develop a family-level privacy process model that explains the series of activities and events that lead to a familial decision about privacy settings and use of contact tracing. The research uses a longitudinal qualitative and quantitative survey of parent-teen dyads at two points in time in different regions with both mandatory and volitional use of contact tracing. The research examines how decisions regarding usage of contact tracing technologies are negotiated within households and how to foster contact tracing acceptance within families. By identifying the processes and barriers to contact tracing acceptance, this research facilitates the domino effect of family-level adoption. Because each family’s identity extends beyond their household, this cascading effect can increase adoption to the household’s broader social networks. By understanding and reducing barriers to adoption within a family, we will be able to help obtain the critical mass of users necessary for successfully keeping COVID-19 infections at a manageable level.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.