Overview
As more and more data is collected, concerns about information privacy become more and more salient. Information privacy is an inter- and multi-disciplinary subject relevant to researchers throughout the iSchool community. This full-day workshop will bring researchers together to discuss current and future privacy research directions and how the iSchool community can respond to the forthcoming National Privacy Research Strategy. Through keynote presentations, plenary speakers, position papers, and group discussions, participants will discuss current privacy research issues and their relevance to the iSchool community. Privacy scholars may submit position papers on their research projects and future directions to the workshop website for selection for presentation during the workshop. During breakout sessions, the workshop participants will seek to define new information privacy research questions for future work by iSchools scholars.
Philadelphia, PA, USA
March 20, 2016
Registration
Themes
In this full-day workshop, we focus on discussing current research in information privacy and providing the opportunity to develop new research questions on the topic. We invite participants to respond to and discuss the forthcoming National Privacy Research Strategy and the report “Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community” produced by Computing Community Consortium. Invited speakers will be solicited to discuss the research agenda set by the strategy and roadmap and to discuss how the iSchool community can contribute to this Research Roadmap.
Call for Participation
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, you can submit a 3-5 page position paper (HCI Archive Format) in PDF form by email to both Masooda Bashir (mnb@illinois.edu) and Heng Xu (hxu@ist.psu.edu) by February 5, 2016. Please select one of following approaches:
- 1) write your response to the report “Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community” OR
- 2) describe your area of research, and future directions you see research in this space taking.
During the workshop, participants will be given 10 minutes to present their position papers, followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussions. We may adjust the timing to accommodate the number of participants.
The workshop organizers will review the position papers for pertinence to the workshop theme, general interest and quality. Space constraints may limit the number of participants.
The organizers will distribute e-copies to all participants prior to the workshop. Participants are strongly encouraged to read all materials before the workshop.
Organizers
Dr. Masooda Bashir is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was the assistant director for social trust initiatives in the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at UIUC. She has led multiple ITI educational initiatives, including the summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates internship program and the Illinois Cyber Security Scholarship Program. Her research interests lie at the interface of IT, Psychology, and Society, especially how privacy, security, and trust intersect from a psychological point of view with information technology.
Dr. Heng Xu is currently on a temporary rotation as a Program Director for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Xu joined NSF from the Pennsylvania State University through the IPA agreement. At Penn State, she is a tenured associate professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. She has authored and co-authored over 100 research papers on information privacy, security management, human-computer interaction, and technology innovation adoption. Her work has been published in premier outlets across various fields such as Information Systems, Computer Science, and Human-Computer Interaction, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), and many others. She was a recipient of an NSF Career award (2010).