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The Design of a Context-Aware Home Media Space for Balancing Privacy and Awareness

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UbiComp 2003: Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2003)

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Traditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video media spaces, like blur filtration, have been proven to be ineffective for compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, this paper presents the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space (HMS) – defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting – that focuses on identifying plausible solutions for balancing privacy and awareness in compromising home situations. In the HMS design, users are provided with implicit and explicit control over their privacy, along with visual and audio feedback of the amount of privacy currently being maintained.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Carman Neustaedter & Saul Greenberg

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, PA 15213-3891, Pittsburgh, USA

    Anind K. Dey

  2. Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Albrecht Schmidt

  3. Intel Research Seattle, 1100 NE 45th St., 6th Floor, 98105, Seattle, WA, USA

    Joseph F. McCarthy

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Neustaedter, C., Greenberg, S. (2003). The Design of a Context-Aware Home Media Space for Balancing Privacy and Awareness. In: Dey, A.K., Schmidt, A., McCarthy, J.F. (eds) UbiComp 2003: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2864. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39653-6_24

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