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User Privacy in Applications for Well-being and Well-working

Authors:
Wouter Bokhove
Bob Hulsebosch
Bas Van Schoonhoven
Maya Sappelli
Kees Wouters

Keywords: privacy; context; user-centric; control

Abstract:
Well-being applications at work and at home are expected to help people to continue contributing to society, the marketplace and the economy. To make them adaptive and intuitive, and allow them to provide personalized information and coaching to the user at the right time requires the availability of context information. The use of sensory devices for this purpose gives rise to an increased information level about users but also poses an increased privacy risk, especially when ubiquitous sensors and devices are networked and connected to on-line services. This paper describes user-centric approaches for protecting the privacy of users when applications use sensor data. Moreover, it assesses the compliance of these approaches with requirements for user controlled privacy and their suitability for well-being and well-working applications. Based on this assessment a number of privacy control approaches have been selected that are suitable for well-being and well-working applications.

Pages: 53 to 59

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: September 23, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9324

ISBN: 978-1-61208-235-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012