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“This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems

Tolmie, Peter; Crabtree, Andy; Rodden, Tom; Colley, James; Luger, Ewa

Authors

Peter Tolmie

TOM RODDEN TOM.RODDEN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research & Knowledge Exchange

James Colley

Ewa Luger



Abstract

© 2016 ACM. 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.

Citation

Tolmie, P., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J., & Luger, E. (2016). “This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems. In CSCW '16: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (491-502). https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819992

Conference Name 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
Conference Location San Francisco, California, USA
Start Date Feb 27, 2016
End Date Mar 2, 2016
Acceptance Date Aug 24, 2015
Online Publication Date Feb 27, 2016
Publication Date Feb 27, 2016
Deposit Date Oct 1, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2016-Feb
Pages 491-502
Book Title CSCW '16: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
ISBN 9781450335928
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819992
Keywords Networked sensing systems, Personal data, Privacy,Articulation work, Accountability, Ethnography
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/775056
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2818048.2819992
Additional Information Definitive version in ACM Digital Library at doi: 10.1145/2818048.2819992

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