A Value Sensitive Design Investigation of Privacy for Location-Enhanced Computing

Building on principles of Value Sensitive Design, this paper presents a preliminary conceptual and technical investigation of privacy for location-enhanced computing. The following features are considered: directionality of information flow, information management, interpretability, awareness, control, scope of disclosure, and risk & recourse. Each feature is considered at three levels of system design: technology, infrastructure, and application. Our goal is to create an analytic tool that, when completed, will provide designers with the means to recognize the privacy implications of their designs, and through their designs to proactively enhance privacy along with other enduring human values. Author