A Shared Vocabulary for Privacy

Boyle, M. (2003)
A Shared Vocabulary for Privacy. In Workshop on Ubicomp Communities: Privacy as Boundary Negotiation. Held as part of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UBICOMP'03. (Seattle),, October 12.

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Abstract

Irwin Altman's popular theory of privacy as a normalizing, dynamic, dialectic process regulating self-environment interactions is integrated with observations and conceptions of privacy drawn from ubicomp, law, architecture, sociology, and psychology. The result is a unified, holistic and comprehensive vocabulary for discussing privacy issues in the design of ubicomp systems, specifically ubiquitous video media spaces. The full vocabulary is rich with subtleties, and this paper presents a summary of material presented elsewhere [7]. The key elaboration of Altman's theory deconstructs privacy into three synergistically-coupled genres of control of self-environment boundaries. Solitude controls interpersonal interactions and attention. Confidentiality controls information access and fidelity. Autonomy controls observable manifestations of identity.

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CLASS = { WORKSHOP },
INDEPENDENT = { TRUE },
AUTHOR = { Boyle, M. },
TITLE = { A Shared Vocabulary for Privacy },
BOOKTITLE = { Workshop on Ubicomp Communities: Privacy as Boundary Negotiation. Held as part of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UBICOMP'03 },
YEAR = { 2003 },
MONTH = { October 12 },
ADDRESS = { Seattle },
}