Privacy is important for all individuals in everyday life. With emerging technologies, smartphones with AR, various social networking applications and artificial intelligence driven modes of surveillance, they tend to intrude privacy. This study aimed to explore and discover various concerns related to perception of privacy in this era of ubiquitous technologies. It employed online survey questionnaire to study user perspectives of privacy. Purposive sampling was used to collect data from 60 participants. Inductive thematic analysis was used to analyze data. Our study discovered key themes like attitude towards privacy in public and private spaces, privacy awareness, consent seeking, dilemmas/confusions related to various technologies, impact of attitude and beliefs on individuals actions regarding how to protect oneself from invasion of privacy in both public and private spaces. These themes interacted amongst themselves and influenced formation of various actions. They were like core principles that molded actions that prevented invasion of privacy for both participant and bystander. Findings of this study would be helpful to improve privacy and personalization of various emerging technologies. This study contributes to privacy by design and positive design by considering psychological needs of users. This is suggestive that the findings can be applied in the areas of experience design, positive technologies, social computing and behavioral interventions.
翻译:对日常生活中所有个人来说,隐私都是重要的。我们的研究发现了一些关键主题,如对公共和私人空间隐私的态度、隐私意识、同意、寻求、进取、两难境地/融合、与各种技术有关的难题/融合、态度和信仰对如何保护自己不受公共和私人空间隐私侵犯的个人行动的影响等。这些主题相互互动,影响各种行动的形成。这些主题可以被应用到设计经验设计、积极社会技术和积极技术的领域。