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      Improving availability awareness with relationship filtering

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      Date
      2005-09-16
      Author
      Davis, Scott M.
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Awareness servers provide information about a person to help observers determine whether a person is available for contact. A trade -off exists in these systems: more sources of information, and higher fidelity in those sources, can improve people’s decisions, but each increase in information reduces privacy. In this thesis, we look at whether the type of relationship between the observer and the person being observed can be used to manage this trade-off. We conducted a survey that asked people what amount of information from different sources that they would disclose to seven different relationship types. We found that in more than half of the cases, people would give different amounts of information to different relationships. We then constructed a prototype system and conducted a Wizard of Oz experiment where we took the system into the real world and observed individuals using it. Our results suggest that awareness servers can be improved by allowing finer-grained control than what is currently available.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Computer Science
      Program
      Computer Science
      Supervisor
      Gutwin, Carl
      Committee
      Mehta, Michael D.; Kusalik, Anthony J. (Tony)
      Copyright Date
      September 2005
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-01052006-142259
      Subject
      privacy
      Availability awareness
      awareness servers.
      instant messaging
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