ISRI Seminar Series / EPP MacArthur Peace and Security Series

The Engineering & Public Policy Department and the PhD Program in
Computation, Organizations & Society present:

Privacy By Design

Batya Friedman
The Information School
University of Washington

Friday, November 18, 2005, 12 pm, CIC first floor
[CIC is the new building next to Newell Simon and Hamburg. Signs will
be posted directing you to the seminar room on the first floor]
Lunch will be provided

For appointments, please contact Jennifer Lucas <jmlucas@cs.cmu.edu>


ABSTRACT

For the past decade, the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab has had,
as one focus, the design of information technologies that support
people's privacy.  Our approach is grounded in interactional theory,
systematic analyses of direct and indirect stakeholders, and an
integrative tripartite methodology that comprises conceptual,
technical and empirical investigations.  In this talk I discuss our
approach in the context of three on-going projects: (1) The Watcher
and The Watched, an empirical study of people’s perspectives on the
real-time display of a public place on a large semi-public screen, (2)
An Open Source Privacy Addendum, a legal strategy for integrating
privacy commitments into open source licenses, and (3) Value Hot Spots
and Opportunities, a method for using value analyses to enhance
groupware system adoption.  I end with ten propositions for the design
of usable privacy.

For more information on Value Sensitive Design, please see:
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/vsd/

BIOGRAPHY

Batya Friedman is a Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the
University of Washington where she Co-Directs the Value Sensitive
Design Research Laboratory.  She received both her BA (1979) and
Ph.D. (1988) from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Friedman’s research interests include human-computer interaction,
especially human values in design, social and cultural aspects of
information systems, and design methodology.  Her 1997 edited volume
(Cambridge University Press) is titled Human Values and the Design of
Computer Technology.  Her work on Value Sensitive Design has focused
on the values of informed consent, privacy in public, trust, freedom
from bias, moral agency, and human dignity, and engaged such
technologies as web browsers, large-screen displays, urban simulation,
robotics, open-source code bases, and location-enhanced computing.
She is also Co-Director for The Mina Institute (Covelo, CA).