An architecture for privacy-sensitive ubiquitous computing

  • Authors:
  • Jason I. Hong;James A. Landay

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, CA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Privacy is the most often-cited criticism of ubiquitous computing, and may be the greatest barrier to its long-term success. However, developers currently have little support in designing software architectures and in creating interactions that are effective in helping end-users manage their privacy. To address this problem, we present Confab, a toolkit for facilitating the development of privacy-sensitive ubiquitous computing applications. The requirements for Confab were gathered through an analysis of privacy needs for both end-users and application developers. Confab provides basic support for building ubiquitous computing applications, providing a framework as well as several customizable privacy mechanisms. Confab also comes with extensions for managing location privacy. Combined, these features allow application developers and end-users to support a spectrum of trust levels and privacy needs.