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Privacy and Security: Broadening the Conversation

Abstract: As the Internet's reach into our everyday lives continues, matters of privacy and security are increasingly important, and often front page news. A wide range of technological solutions have been attempted, but they tend to be both awkward and brittle in real use. Our research collaboration, linking researchers at ISR and at Intel Research, is looking at these problems. We look at privacy and security not as technological problems but as social and cultural practices, suggesting quite different approaches for how technology should be designed to support them.

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Paul Dourish is Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine; before joining the faculty at ICS, he was a Senior Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC, and has also held research positions at Apple Computer and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC. His primary research interests are in Computer- Supported Cooperative Work and Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on design approaches that blend novel interactive software design with theoretical understandings of social action. This has led him to investigate topics such as workflow systems, synchronous and asynchronous awareness, multimedia communication environments, architectures for collaborative and mobile systems, and attribute-based information stores. His current work focuses especially on the use of visualization techniques to provide endusers with visual experiences of complex processes, such as distributed system behavior, network security, and software dynamics. His book, Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, was recently published by MIT Press.

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As a manager of People and Practices Research at Intel, Ken Anderson oversees the development of innovative research of human cultures and social practices to inform technology design. His current foci are on social relationships, identity, and trust. In work and play, groups small and large are using technologies for weaving representations of their identities, connections and interactions. Ken is a symbolic anthropologist by training, his dissertation topic was on intertextuality and Azorean identity, which explored the space of media, identity and culture. Prior to coming to Intel Ken was at AT&T | Broadband, MediaOne, and US West where he worked to bring a better understanding of people´s everyday lives into corporate product and strategy development. He has also played the role of itinerate academic by being research faculty at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Bethel College and Seminary, University of Minnesota and Brown University As a graduate student, Anderson lead ethnographic efforts of Brown University’s Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) around people’s practices, education and technology in a hypermedia world.