Ein interessantes Projekt der Carnegie Mellon University untersucht das Verhalten von Menschen hinsichtlich ihrer Gewohnheiten Informationen über ihren Aufenthaltsort freiwillig und selektiv mit anderen Menschen auszutauschen.
“The purpose of our study is to understand people’s attitude towards selectively sharing information about their location with others..”
Das Projekt ist eine Studie der Carnegie Mellon University und heisst Locaccino. Die Studie Locaccino funktioniert über eine Facebook Applikation. Um an der Studie teilzunehmen muss man eine Software zur Bestimmung der Geodaten des Aufenthaltsortes (W-LAN Triangulation) installieren. Danach kann man einstellen mit wem man wann seine Geodaten (Aufenthaltsort) austauschen möchte.
Purpose of this Study
The purpose of our study is to understand people’s attitude towards selectively sharing information about their location with others in the context of everyday life scenarios involving interactions with friends, family members and colleagues. The study is motivated by the emergence of location tracking technologies that enable devices such as cell phones or laptops to compute their current location (e.g. using GPS or other triangulation technologies), as well as the development of interfaces that enable users to control who they want to share this information with and under what conditions.
Locaccino is part of a research project at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The following is the official consent form approved by CMU.
Study Title: People Finder: Access Control Policies in the Wild, HS08-418
Procedures
You may simply use the system to view participant(s)’ location(s). Some of your information (name and time and date of the location request) will be recorded.
Expected Duration & Location
The research will take place online or in sessions on the Carnegie Mellon University campus.
Participant Requirements
Participants must have access to the Internet.
Risks
The risks and discomfort associated with participation in this study are no greater than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the use of the Internet or of social networking sites and systems.
Rights
Your participation is voluntary. You are free to stop your participation at any point. Refusal to participate or withdrawal of your consent or discontinued participation in the study will not result in any penalty or loss of benefits or rights to which you might otherwise be entitled. The Principal Investigator may at his/her discretion remove you from the study for any of a number of reasons. In such an event, you will not suffer any penalty or loss of benefits or rights to which you might otherwise be entitled.
Benefits
There may be no personal benefit from your participation in the study but the knowledge received may be of value to humanity.
Compensation & Costs
If you simply use the system to view participant(s)’ location(s), you will not be compensated.
There will be no cost to you if you participate in this study. All payments will be made in the form of Amazon.com gift certificates.
Confidentiality
By participating in the study, you understand and agree that Carnegie Mellon may be required to disclose your consent form, data and other personally identifiable information as required by law, regulation, subpoena or court order. Otherwise, your confidentiality will be maintained in the following manner:
Your data and consent form will be kept separate. Your consent form will be stored in a locked location on Carnegie Mellon property and will not be disclosed to third parties. By participating, you understand and agree that the data and information gathered during this study may be used by Carnegie Mellon and published and/or disclosed by Carnegie Mellon to others outside of Carnegie Mellon. However, your name, address, contact information and other direct personal identifiers in your consent form will not be mentioned in any such publication or dissemination of the research data and/or results by Carnegie Mellon.
The research team will have access to your location disclosure policies, including the number of rules you set up and how you modified them during the course of the study. It will also have access to logs recording your device’s location each time the client updates, how often your location was requested by others, the conditions when these requests where submitted, whether your location was sent to the requester and the feedback you provided when you audited them. This information will only be used for the purpose of this particular research project. Data that contains identifying information (such as username) will be cleansed of this information by 2011.
When the application is running, it will periodically transmit your laptop’s location to our servers, where it will be available to the research team and to other people who make requests that match your disclosure policy. If you would like to prevent your laptop’s location from being transmitted at any given time, you can exit the application.
The research team may collect additional information associated with your Online Social Network (OSN) account (e.g. the number of friends you have or privacy settings).
Right to Ask Questions & Contact Information
If you have any questions about this study, you should feel free to ask them now. If you have questions later, desire additional information, or wish to withdraw your participation please contact:
Norman Sadeh
Institute for Software Research
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-8144
help@locaccino.org
If you have questions pertaining to your rights as a research participant; or to report objections to this study, you should contact:
IRB Chair
Regulatory Compliance Administration
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Warner Hall, 4th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: irb-review@andrew.cmu.edu
(412) 268-1901 or (412) 268 4727
The Carnegie Mellon University Institutional Review Board (IRB) has approved the use of human participants for this study.
I certify that I have explained the nature and purpose of this research study to the above individual and I have discussed the potential benefits and possible risks of participation in the study. Any questions the individual has about this study have been answered and any future questions will be answered as they arise.
Norman Sadeh
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2 Comments
Hab ich sogar schonmal probiert, weil aber von meinen Freunden niemand mitgemacht hat – auch Du nicht! -, habe ich’s wieder deinstalliert. Allein macht es ja irgendwie wenig Sinn. Das Projekt wurde bei der CFP 09 im Juni vorgestellt. Wirkte insgesamt sympathisch, datenschutz-bewusst, aber mit einigen offenen Fragen. Ich kann mich nicht mehr richtig erinnern, aber ich meine, das hatte damit zu tun, dass nicht ganz klar war, was mit den Daten passiert, wenn das Projekt beendet ist. Konkret, wem die dann eigentlich gehören.
Hi Anne
ich hatte leider eine ganze Zeit nicht auf mein Facebook Nachrichten gesehen und so auch Deinen Hinweis zu Locaccino übersehen. Mittlerweile habe ich das nun angeschaltet, habe aber das selbe Problem das Du beschreibst: Ich kann das nicht richtig testen, weil keiner meiner Freunde an der Locaccino Studie teilnimmt. Zu der Frage wem die Daten der Studie dann gehören, habe ich im Kleingedruckten gelesen, dass die Profile der Teilnehmer anonymisiert werden. Bleiben also die Daten der Studie selbst, also die Ergebnisse. Die gehören dann glaub ich dem Institut “Carnegie Mellon University” – was ich aber nicht problematisch finde. Also: Locaccino noch mal anstellen?
viele Grüße
Daniel