Balancing Privacy and Awareness in a Home Media Space

Neustaedter, C (2003)
Balancing Privacy and Awareness in a Home Media Space. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Canada, May.

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Abstract

Always-on video provides rich levels of awareness for collaborators separated by distance, yet it has the potential to threaten privacy as sensitive details may be broadcast to others. This threat increases for telecommuters who work at home and connect to office-based colleagues using video. In this thesis, I address the problem of how one can develop and evaluate privacy-protecting strategies and user interface design techniques for balancing privacy with awareness in a home media space (HMS) - defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting. First, using a controlled experiment, I show blur filtration is not able to balance privacy and awareness for typical home situations involving a telecommuter. Second, I develop a framework for the design of a HMS that identifies a set of appropriate privacy-protecting strategies. Third, I present the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space, designed to balance privacy and awareness for telecommuters and others in the home.

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@MASTERSTHESIS { 2003-Neustaedter.MScThesis,
CLASS = { THESIS },
AUTHOR = { Neustaedter, C },
TITLE = { Balancing Privacy and Awareness in a Home Media Space },
SCHOOL = { Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary },
ADDRESS = { Calgary, Alberta Canada },
YEAR = { 2003 },
MONTH = { May },
}