Visualisation and Other Methods of Expression (VOME)

这项研究代表了一种多学科和创新的方法，以实现有保证的隐私和知情同意。该提案提出了一种新的、极具独创性的办法，以满足让利益攸关方参与关于身份管理中的隐私和同意问题的辩论的要求。该研究的核心是多学科的，并提供了一系列学科（包括社会科学，心理学，信息安全，信息系统和管理科学）的综合输出，将定性和定量数据结合在一起，以创新的方式告知我们对隐私和同意要求的理解。这项研究的成果之一将是为开展跨学科研究制定一个新的方法框架。现在有许多实例表明，这类办法的好处得到了承认，但在实践中如何实现这一点的方法实例却很少。概括地说，工作方案涉及确定和招募大批研究对象参加研究项目。潜在的研究对象数量超过30，000个在线服务用户。有些科目将参加为期三年的项目的全部时间。这使得研究，以实现一个纵向的元素，通过检查现有的方式表达参与与在线隐私和同意的问题，并进行行动研究，以确定最佳的方式，通过实验与一系列的表达手段，扩大参与。扩展用户参与的目的是使隐私和同意决策过程更具信息性，以便用户能够更好地控制他们对在线服务的选择以及他们如何使用这些服务。研究的结果将是表达隐私和同意决策的概念模型，这些模型将嵌入原型软件中，反映适合于一系列在线社区的表达方式。原型产品将以工作方案前一部分采用的一些表达方法为基础。在定性研究阶段结束时，根据定性研究结果选择一系列潜在的软件产品。将开展一系列焦点小组和其他形式的用户组参与，以确定哪种表达方法是软件产品隐私和同意决策的最适当基础，以及软件应采取的形式。输出将是可用于增强现有联机服务软件的小型原型软件代码。

This research represents a multi-disciplinary and innovative approach to achieving assured privacy and informed consent. The proposal offers a new and highly original approach to addressing the requirement to engaging stakeholders in the debate about privacy and consent in identity management. The core of the research is multi-disciplinary and offers an integrated output from a range of disciplines (including social sciences, psychology, information security, information systems and management science) bringing together both qualitative and quantitative data to inform our understanding of privacy and consent requirements in an innovative way. One of the outputs of the research will be the development of a new methodological framework for undertaking cross disciplinary research. There are many instances now where the benefits of this type of approach are recognized but there are few methodological examples of how this can be achieved in practice. In summary, the programme of work involves identifying and enrolling large groups of research subjects onto the research project. The number of potential research subject is in excess of some 30,000 on-line service users. Some subjects will take part for the full duration of the three year project. This enables the research to achieve a longitudinal element by examining existing ways of expressing engagement with on-line privacy and consent issues and conducting action research to identify the best ways of extending that engagement through experimentation with a range of means of expression. The purpose of extending the user engagement is to make the privacy and consent decision making process more informative so that users are able to take more control over their choice of on-line services and how they use them. The result of the research will be conceptual models for expressing privacy and consent decision making that will be embedded within proto-type software which reflects the means of expression appropriate for a range of on-line communities. The proto products will be based on some of the methods of expression that are deployed in the earlier part of the work programme. At the end of the qualitative research phase a range of potential software products are selected on the basis of the qualitative research findings. A series of focus groups and other forms of user group engagement will be undertaken to ascertain which methods of expression would be the most appropriate basis for privacy and consent decision making software products and the form that software should take. The output will be small pieces of proto type software code which could be used to enhance existing on-line service software.