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A Constructive Approach for Raising Information Privacy Competences: The Case of Escape Room Games

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Creating educational interventions to enhance information privacy awareness is at the heart of research, as the protection of personal data and privacy is increasingly of concern to internet users. However, although efforts have interactive and exploratory features, they are not sufficiently supported by a theoretical learning framework, such as constructivism. In addition, they do not target specific learning outcomes to prepare competent users to protect their own privacy and personal data. Based on the requirements of the Constructivist Information Privacy Pedagogy and the Information Privacy Competency Model for Citizens we claim that escape rooms are the ideal constructive educational interventions, and we propose an indicative scenario for an escape room oriented towards specific competences for the internet user.

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Papaioannou, T., Tsohou, A., Bounias, G., Karagiannis, S. (2022). A Constructive Approach for Raising Information Privacy Competences: The Case of Escape Room Games. In: Katsikas, S., Furnell, S. (eds) Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13582. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17926-6_3

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