Common ground to analyse privacy coordination in awareness systems

  • Authors:
  • Natalia A. Romero;Panos Markopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • User Centred Design Group, Industrial Design Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;User Centred Design Group, Industrial Design Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper discusses how Clark’s theory of Common Ground can be applied to analyse how individuals connected by Awareness Systems conjointly meet and coordinate their privacy needs. Relevant aspects of Common Ground theory for the analysis of human communication behaviours are used in this study to understand privacy as a collaborative coordination process. The exposition illustrates how Awareness Systems are a mechanism for helping individuals to meet their privacy needs rather than as a privacy threat, as a first impression might suggest.