“There is nothing that I need to keep secret”: Sharing Practices and Concerns
summary
30 semi-structured interviews of wearable fitness users reveal concrete sharing behaviors and privacy tradeoffs: participants sort recipients into six recipient categories (friends, family, strangers, physicians, incentive programs, co-workers), commonly share step counts seen as harmless, avoid sharing location, and surprisingly many share with caregivers for medical reasons. Users prioritize self-presentation and social norms over data sensitivity, rarely change settings, and sometimes manually compile logs for doctors; recommended fixes include customizable audience-based sharing controls, easier clinician connections, and periodic privacy reminders.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27Sharing Risks
- 2:24Sharing Motivations
- 4:37Methodology
- 6:09Results
- 7:44Friends
- 8:52Family
- 9:34Strangers
- 10:32caregivers
- 11:30financial incentives
- 12:30coworkers
- 13:04concerns
- 14:11management
- 14:57summary
- 16:47questions
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