Motivating Users to Attend to Privacy: A Theory-Driven Design Study

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Auteurs principaux: Shiri, Varun, Xiong, Maggie, Cheng, Jinghui, Guo, Jin L. C.
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Publié: 2024
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author Shiri, Varun
Xiong, Maggie
Cheng, Jinghui
Guo, Jin L. C.
author_facet Shiri, Varun
Xiong, Maggie
Cheng, Jinghui
Guo, Jin L. C.
contents In modern technology environments, raising users' privacy awareness is crucial. Existing efforts largely focused on privacy policy presentation and failed to systematically address a radical challenge of user motivation for initiating privacy awareness. Leveraging the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), we proposed design ideas and categories dedicated to motivating users to engage with privacy-related information. Using these design ideas, we created a conceptual prototype, enhancing the current App Store product page. Results from an online experiment and follow-up interviews showed that our design effectively motivated participants to attend to privacy issues, raising both the threat appraisal and coping appraisal, two main factors in PMT. Our work indicated that effective design should consider combining PMT components, calibrating information content, and integrating other design elements, such as visual cues and user familiarity. Overall, our study contributes valuable design considerations driven by the PMT to amplify the motivational aspect of privacy communication.
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spellingShingle Motivating Users to Attend to Privacy: A Theory-Driven Design Study
Shiri, Varun
Xiong, Maggie
Cheng, Jinghui
Guo, Jin L. C.
Human-Computer Interaction
In modern technology environments, raising users' privacy awareness is crucial. Existing efforts largely focused on privacy policy presentation and failed to systematically address a radical challenge of user motivation for initiating privacy awareness. Leveraging the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), we proposed design ideas and categories dedicated to motivating users to engage with privacy-related information. Using these design ideas, we created a conceptual prototype, enhancing the current App Store product page. Results from an online experiment and follow-up interviews showed that our design effectively motivated participants to attend to privacy issues, raising both the threat appraisal and coping appraisal, two main factors in PMT. Our work indicated that effective design should consider combining PMT components, calibrating information content, and integrating other design elements, such as visual cues and user familiarity. Overall, our study contributes valuable design considerations driven by the PMT to amplify the motivational aspect of privacy communication.
title Motivating Users to Attend to Privacy: A Theory-Driven Design Study
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03915