Long-term Effects of Ubiquitous Surveillance in the Home



: Antti Oulasvirta, Aurora Pihlajamaa, Jukka Perkiö, Debarshi Ray, Taneli Vähäkangas, Tero Hasu, Niklas Vainio, Petri Myllymäki

: Anind K. Dey, Hao-Hua Chu, Gillian Hayes

: ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

: New York

: 2012

: UbiComp '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

: 41

: 50

: 978-1-4503-1224-0

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370224

: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2370224&CFID=377964426&CFTOKEN=75514863


The Helsinki Privacy Experiment is a study of the long-term effects of ubiquitous surveillance in homes. Ten volunteering households were instrumented with video cameras with microphones, and computer, wireless network, smartphone, TV, DVD, and customer card use was logged. We report on stress, anxiety, concerns, and privacy-seeking behavior after six months. The data provide first insight into the privacy-invading character of ubiquitous surveillance in the home and explain how people can gradually become accustomed to surveillance even if they oppose it.



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