ESR1 - Caterina Maidhof

After an initial review of existing literature on privacy perceptions and technology acceptance, with a specific focus on video-based AAL, a first qualitative assessment was conceptualised and then completed with participants from all ages (range: 23 – 81 years), questions regarding the role of privacy in daily life and feelings of privacy violations. Furthermore, participants´ cognitive representations of living with AAL in older age were examined through the creation of mental models. The latter resulted useful in eliciting participants’ understanding of privacy within such a scenario. Based on this qualitative study a quantitative study (online survey) was carried out to quantify several privacy parameters (i.e., feelings of privacy violation, critical intruders into privacy as well as the comfortableness of being filmed during activities of daily living). 

In an interdisciplinary collaboration among social scientists and computer scientists, with ESR14, the role of nudity for video-based AAL was examined from two different angles. The social perspective reported users’ preferences and opinions on showing skin while being monitored with cameras whereas the technological perspective provided insights on skin segmentation approaches. Moreover, in collaboration with ESR15, a scoping review on acceptance and privacy perceptions toward video-based AAL technologies has been completed.  

Recently, another qualitative and quantitative study has been carried out with specific focus on the evaluation of acceptance and privacy when it comes to different activities of daily living (i.e., household activities vs. social activities vs. intimate activities). Data from both assessments are currently being analysed.