Data Privacy Matters: Social Media Research Part 3
Internet addiction, echo chambers, harassment, scams, political influence, and radicalization can be exacerbated by a lack of data privacy. This work addresses how users can protect themselves from issues stemming from privacy. Design probes were used to explore user attitudes related to data privacy and to see if different intervention functions appealed to participants.
Research Methods
Expert Interviews
Interviewed computer scientists and AI experts about data collection and use on social media and internet activity
Co-creation session
Gathered active social media users, designers, and AI experts to discuss concerns with privacy to explore digital interventions and ways to encourage privacy online
Design Probes
Four different design probes were made to see how users respond to educational activities about data privacy and behavior change nudges
Final Prototype
Four design probes based on different intervention functions were built in AdobeXD. These then were incorporated into an online survey released on MTurk, a crowd-sourcing platform where 100 responses were collected. These surveys were built to explore how to best appeal to young, educated users. Each was analyzed to investigate how effective each strategy was at increasing motivation to adopt safe online habits. While no interventions showed significantly better or worse results than the others it was encouraging to see that they were all received positively implying that the design interventions tested could be researched further and applied to future systems.
