Investigating how Users Imagine their Personal Privacy Assistant

How Physician Assistant Programs Use the CASPA Personal Statement in Their Admissions Process.

PURPOSE This research surveyed physician assistant (PA) program admissions personnel to determine how the Central Application Service for Physician Assistants (CASPA) personal statements are used, what influence the statements had on certain admissions processes, whether there was any concern about authorship of the statements, and how important certain previously identified content themes were...

Supporting the users’ privacy preferences when sharing personal content

The increase in the creation and sharing of distributed multimedia content has led to the creation of new tools and methods to automatically and manually annotate content to assist in multimedia management. The content is often shared within communities and the owner has very little means to protect their content from misuse. This can become a problem when the annotations (metadata) are attache...

Virtual Personal Assistant

From Personal Computer to Personal Assistant

Much of the confusion that surrounds electronic personal assistants arises from the open-ended complexity of their development. In this paper we categorise some of their more common uses before suggesting several thought-provoking extensions.

Making privacy personal: Profiling social network users to inform privacy education and nudging

Social Network Sites (SNSs) offer a plethora of privacy controls, but users rarely exploit all of these mechanisms, nor do they do so in the same manner. We demonstrate that SNS users instead adhere to one of a small set of distinct privacy management strategies that are partially related to their level of privacy feature awareness. Using advanced Factor Analysis methods on the self-reported pr...