Chapter Ninteen. Privacy Issues and Human-Computer Interaction

Mark S. Ackerman and Scott D. Mainwaring

PRIVACY CAN BE A KEY ASPECT OF THE USER EXPERIENCE WITH COMPUTERS, ONLINE SYSTEMS, AND new technologies. Knowing what to consider about users and their views of computer systems can only improve privacy mechanisms. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the subfield of computer science that studies how people interact withand throughcomputational technologies. This chapter examines what HCI, as a research area, offers to both those designing and those researching privacy mechanisms.