Privacy in Online Social Networking at Work (slides:) Yang Wang Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Informatics Advisor: Alfred Kobsa Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine

Abstract

Do employees use online social networks at work? Yes. For work-related reasons only? No.
With widespread usage of sites like LinkedIn and YouTube as well as corporate-internal social networks (e.g., IBM's Beehive) at work, how would this work practice (reality!) change the workplace dynamics? This talk will touch upon the privacy aspect of this practice and suggest future research directions.

 

Bio

Yang Wang is a PhD candidate in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Irvine. His broad research interests span across the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), Privacy and Security, User Modeling and Social Computing. His PhD dissertation research focuses on mechanisms of reconciling web personalization with privacy constraints imposed by legal restrictions and by users' privacy preferences. He also found passion in and worked on online communities (such as blogsphere and online games) and digital money. He was a visiting researcher at Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has performed research with several organizations, including CommerceNet, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Lab (FXPAL), and Intel Research. His work with Intel Research on virtual currency use in China was recently quoted in a BusinessWeek article.