"This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems
Notions like ‘Big Data’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ turn upon anticipated harvesting of personal data through ubiquitous computing and networked sensing systems. It is largely presumed that understandings of people’s everyday interactions will be relatively easy to ‘read off’ of such data and that...
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| author | Tolmie, Peter Crabtree, Andy Rodden, Tom Colley, James Luger, Ewa |
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| description | Notions like ‘Big Data’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ turn upon anticipated harvesting of personal data through ubiquitous computing and networked sensing systems. It is largely presumed that understandings of people’s everyday interactions will be relatively easy to ‘read off’ of such data and that this, in turn, poses a privacy threat. An ethnographic study of how people account for sensed data to third parties uncovers serious challenges to such ideas. The study reveals that the legibility of sensor data turns upon various orders of situated reasoning involved in articulating the data and making it accountable. Articulation work is indispensable to personal data sharing and raises real requirements for networked sensing systems premised on the harvesting of personal data. |
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| spelling | nottingham-303462020-05-04T17:35:19Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30346/ "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems Tolmie, Peter Crabtree, Andy Rodden, Tom Colley, James Luger, Ewa Notions like ‘Big Data’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ turn upon anticipated harvesting of personal data through ubiquitous computing and networked sensing systems. It is largely presumed that understandings of people’s everyday interactions will be relatively easy to ‘read off’ of such data and that this, in turn, poses a privacy threat. An ethnographic study of how people account for sensed data to third parties uncovers serious challenges to such ideas. The study reveals that the legibility of sensor data turns upon various orders of situated reasoning involved in articulating the data and making it accountable. Articulation work is indispensable to personal data sharing and raises real requirements for networked sensing systems premised on the harvesting of personal data. 2016-02-27 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Tolmie, Peter, Crabtree, Andy, Rodden, Tom, Colley, James and Luger, Ewa (2016) "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems. In: 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 16), 27 February - 2 March 2016, San Franciso, USA. Networked sensing systems Personal data Privacy Articulation work Accountability Ethnography http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2818048.2819992 |
| spellingShingle | Networked sensing systems Personal data Privacy Articulation work Accountability Ethnography Tolmie, Peter Crabtree, Andy Rodden, Tom Colley, James Luger, Ewa "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems |
| title | "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems |
| title_full | "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems |
| title_fullStr | "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems |
| title_short | "This has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems |
| title_sort | "this has to be the cats": personal data legibility in networked sensing systems |
| topic | Networked sensing systems Personal data Privacy Articulation work Accountability Ethnography |
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