More and more personal data is exposed to automatic and programmatic access, making it more difficult to safeguard the personal information from unauthorised access at every step. We introduce a privacy inspection and monitoring framework provides two functions: (i) the process designers can look over the privacy aspects of the automated business processes and resolve potential problems before ...

Personal information management has been described as a game of catch, where a person tosses their personal information into the future, in hopes of being able to catch the information later when it is needed [2]. This report focuses on the catching aspect of personal information management, discussing current approaches to and problems with how people return to previously encountered informati...

The paper reports a study into consumers’ ‘soft’ usability problems they experience using electronic household products. These problems cannot be traced back to a specification violation failure, classified as no failure found (NFF). The aim of this study is to find a relationship between consumers’ soft usability problems and their personal characteristics, encompassing demographical and cogni...

Ad-hoc and situational applications for personal use will gain more and more traction in the work support for knowledge workers (KWers). Personal information is a key element in these applications. Composition environments for situational applications like, e.g., Yahoo Pipes, enable endusers to compose services into an application targeting their individual problems. However, we analyze that th...

The study explores adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help for emotional problems. The personal service gap is examined by asking adolescents about their willingness to refer themselves and others to formal (psychologists) and informal (friends) help sources, using a within-subjects design. The study included 662 Israeli adolescents in the 10th and 12th grades. The results indicate that adol...

Emotional problems figure prominently in many clinical conditions. Recent efforts to explain and treat these conditions have emphasized the role of emotion dysregulation. However, emotional problems are not always the result of emotion dysregulation, and even when emotional problems do arise from emotion dysregulation, it is necessary to specify precisely what type of emotion dysregulation migh...