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Why Do You Need This?: Selective Disclosure of Data Among Citizen Scientists

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Sandy J. J. GouldAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: 392, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300622

Published: 02 May 2019 Publication History

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Recent scandals involving data from participatory research have contributed to broader public concern about online privacy. Such concerns might make people more reluctant to participate in research that asks them to volunteer personal data, compromising many researchers' data collection. We tested several motivational messages that encouraged participation in a citizen science project. We measured people's willingness to disclose personal information. While participants were less likely to share sensitive data than neutral data, disclosure behaviour was not affected by attitudes to privacy. Importantly, we found that citizen scientists who were exposed to a motivational message that emphasised 'learning' were more likely to share sensitive information than those presented with other types of motivational cues. Our results suggest that priming individuals with motivational messages can increase their willingness to contribute personal data to a project, even if the request pertains to sensitive information.

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Why Do You Need This?: Selective Disclosure of Data Among Citizen Scientists
1. Security and privacy
  1. Human and societal aspects of security and privacy

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CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2019

9077 pages

ISBN:9781450359702

DOI:10.1145/3290605

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University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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University College London, UK
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University of Melbourne, Australia

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