On the relative importance of privacy guidelines for ambient health care

  • Authors:
  • Evelien van de Garde-Perik;Panos Markopoulos;Boris de Ruyter

  • Affiliations:
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an empirical study regarding the relative importance of complying with privacy related guidelines in the context of a Health Monitoring System. Participants were confronted with text scenarios describing privacy related aspects of a health monitoring service for daily use at home. Participants assessed the relative importance to them of simplified variants of the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) guidelines for the protection of personal data. The guidelines that relate to Insight and Openness were most valued. The guidelines relating to Modification and Data Quality were valued least by most participants in this context. Methodological challenges were encountered on the way, which reveal the complexity of conducting empirical investigations of privacy aspects of human-computer interaction.