CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: User-Controllable Policy Learning; Research being conducted with this award involves developing and evaluating a new family of user-oriented machine learning technologies to help users refine a wide range of security and privacy policies.
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| AWARD OVERVIEW |
| Award Number |
0905562 |
Funding Agency |
National Science Foundation |
| Total Award Amount |
$723,789 |
Project Location - City |
PITTSBURGH |
| Award Date |
09/22/2009 |
Project Location - State |
PA |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
Project Location - Zip |
15213-3890
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| Jobs Reported |
1.88 |
Congressional District |
14 |
| Project Location - Country |
US |
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Recipient Information
(Grants)
| Recipient Information (Grants) |
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Recipient Name
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CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY |
| Recipient DUNS Number |
052184116
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| Recipient Address |
5000 FORBES AVE |
| Recipient City |
PITTSBURGH |
| Recipient State |
Pennsylvania |
| Recipient Zip |
15213-3815 |
| Recipient Congressional District |
14 |
| Recipient Country |
USA |
Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Projects and Jobs Information
| Projects and Jobs Information |
| Project Title |
TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: User-Controllable Policy Learning |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
| Final Project Report Submitted |
No |
| Project Activities Description |
Universities |
| Quarterly Activities/Project Description |
Over the past quarter, we conducted a detailed analysis of results collected as part of a 3-week study on impact of wizards using privacy profiles. This included looking the privacy policies selected by users, the number and types of edits they made during the study, the extent to which their policies opened up more or less over time, and their expressed level of comfort with their policies. Participants had been split into two conditions that differed only in the interface they used to initialize their location sharing preferences: (1) a baseline condition where users were given a simple wizard to manually specify with whom, where, and when they were willing to share and (2) a treatment condition where users were given a wizard with some of the most common privacy settings found in prior studies on location sharing. Following initialization, users in both conditions had access to similar interfaces to review requests for their locations (both actual and hypothetical) and to edit or refine their privacy settings.
We expected the treatment condition to initially result in more sharing than in the baseline condition, but expected that user preferences in both conditions would become more difficult to distinguish over time, as users audited requests for their locations and edited their rules. Surprisingly, our results suggest this does not happen. Moreover, the difference in sharing observed initially between the two conditions persisted over time, with users expressing no difference in level of comfort between the two conditions. These results indicate the impact privacy profiles can have on user behavior and show this impact is not limited to how users initially configure their settings but also extends over time to affect long-term privacy perception as well. An article detailing these results was submitted to Ubicomp. Concurrently, we enhanced our Locaccino mobile phone client, fixed a number of bugs and made the server code more efficient.
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| Jobs Created |
1.88 |
| Description of Jobs Created |
Co-PI, Project Administrator, Research Programmer, Masters Student |
Purchaser Information
(Grants)
| Purchaser Information |
| Contracting Office ID |
Not Reported |
| Contracting Office Name |
Not Available |
| Contracting Office Region |
Not Available |
| TAS Major Program |
49-0101 |
| Award Information |
| Award Date |
09/22/2009 |
| Award Number |
0905562 |
| Order Number |
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| Award Type |
Grants |
| Funding Agency ID |
49 |
| Funding Agency Name |
National Science Foundation |
| Funding Office Name |
Not Available |
| Awarding Agency ID |
49 |
| Awarding Agency Name |
National Science Foundation |
| Amount of Award |
$723,789 |
| Funds Invoiced/Received |
$576,691 |
| Expenditure Amount |
$597,343 |
| Infrastructure Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Name |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Email |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Phone |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Address |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact City |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact State |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Zip |
Not Reported |
Product or Service Information
(Grants)
| Product or Service Information |
| Primary Activity Code |
B43 - NTEE |
| Activity Description |
Universities |
| Sub-Awards Information |
| Sub-awards to Organizations |
0 |
| Sub-award Amounts to Organizations |
$0 |
| Sub-Awards to Individuals |
0 |
| Sub-Award Amounts to Individuals |
$0 |
| Number of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Amount of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors greater than $25,000 |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors greater than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
81 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
$29,643 |
| Location Information |
| Latitude, Longitude |
40º 26' 40",
-79º 56' 34" |
| Congressional District |
14 |
| Address 1 |
5000 FORBES AVENUE |
| Address 2 |
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| City |
PITTSBURGH |
| County |
Allegheny |
| State |
PA |
| Zip |
15213-3890 |
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