Rudnicka, A;
Cox, AL;
Gould, S;
(2019)
Why Do You Need This? Selective Disclosure of Data Among Citizen Scientists.
In: Cox, Anna and Kostakos, Vassilis, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 2019 (CHI '19 ) CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
(pp. paper no. 392).
ACM: New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
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.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Why Do You Need This? Selective Disclosure of Data Among Citizen Scientists |
Event: | CHI 2019: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 4 - 9 May 2019, Glasgow, UK |
Location: | Glasgow |
Dates: | 04 May 2019 - 09 May 2019 |
ISBN-13: | 978-1-4503-5970-2 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1145/3290605.3300622 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300622 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2019 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License. |
Keywords: | citizen science, privacy, disclosure, motivation, dabblers. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10067550 |



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