Transparency as User-Centered Intervention for Privacy and Security (E07*)

• Subject Area: Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing ; Security and Dependability, Operating-, Communication- and Distributed Systems
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 236615297

The project aims to adequately inform and educate users in order to encourage better decision-making with respect to personal security and privacy behavior. In particular, the project considers in which contexts and for which users transparent and, thus, comprehensible indicators as user interventions yield such improved outcomes. More generally, the project further investigates if and how user interventions in security and privacy can benefit from personalization and control opportunities by the users.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1119: CROSSING - Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Christian Reuter; Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider