Privacy Respecting (mobile) SocialTV

Overview

In the current information technology age, the demand of tools that meet social interaction needs, e.g. SocialTV and Internet-based media advertisement, is gaining in importance. Thus privacy becomes a matter of concern in this respect. Social interactions comprise privacy risks and threats that may enable abuse, e.g., man-in-the-middle attacks based on profile analysis at the server-side. Since in the area of SocialTV current software as well as hardware solutions are mostly server-centric, one cannot fully eliminate accidental or intentional risks and threats even by the reconstruction of users’ personal information and their interdependencies. In this project, we evaluated the potentials of SocialTV by considering end-users’ privacy based on lab and field trials. In these trials we enabled eighteen people of various ages and expertise to use centralized as well as decentralized (group-centric) solutions for SocialTV by means of a Web-based software prototype. 

The current work in this project focus on integrating the anonymous credential system Idemix in mobile SocialTV settings (WallShare system).

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Publications and Materials

Ricardo Tesoriero, Mohamed Bourimi, Fatih Karatas, Thomas Barth, Pedro G. Villanueva, and Philipp Schwarte 
Model-Driven Privacy and Security in Multi-modal Social Media UIs 
Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7472, 2012, pp 158-181 . Springer, Heidelberg (2012) Download paper

Mohamed Bourimi, Thomas Barth, Dogan Kesdogan, D. Abou-Tair, Fabian Hermann and Simon Thiel 
Using distributed user interfaces in collaborative, secure and privacy-preserving software environments 
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Volume 28, Issue 11, 2012 Download Paper

Mohamed Bourimi, Ricardo Tesoriero, Pedro G. Villanueva, Fatih Karatas, Philipp Schwarte 
Privacy and Security in Multi-modal User Interface Modeling for Social Media 
Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on and 2011 IEEE Third International Confernece on Social Computing (SocialCom), (SocialCom/PASSAT) 2011 Download paper

D. Abou-Tair, Ingo Köster and Kathrin Höfke 
Security and privacy requirements in interactive TV 
Multimedia Systems, Volume 17, Number 5, 393-408, DOI: 10.1007/s00530-010-0221-x, Special Issue on Interactive multimedia computing

Mohamed Bourimi, Dogan Kesdogan, Thomas Barth, Kathrin Höfke, and Dhiah el Diehn I. Abou-Tair, Evaluating potentials of Internet and Web based SocialTV in the light of privacy in proceedings of the Social Computing (SocialCom), 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on

Kathrin Höfke, Requirements of Data Security Concepts for SocialTV Applications 
Interdisciplinary Master Thesis (Media Sciences Faculty and Business Information Systems Institute - IT Security and Privacy Group), 2010

Kathrin Höfke Thesenpapier: Anforderungen an datensicherheitstechnische Konzepte bei SocialTV Anwendungen, 2010

Kathrin Höfke Fragebogen, 2010

Kathrin Höfke Auswertung, 2010

First Results

Project Participants

Prof. Dr. Dogan Kesdogan, Mohamed Bourimi, Marcel Heupel (Idemix and mobile privacy-respecting HCI), Philipp Schwarte (Idemix integration e.g. for adult content).

Project Partners (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Tesoriero, Pedro G. Villanueva, Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Gallud.

Former Project Participants

Dr. Thomas Barth, Dr. Dhiah el Diehn I. Abou-Tair, Katrin Höfke, Falk Kühnel. 

Contact

For more information, please contact Prof. Dr. D. Kesdogan or Mohamed Bourimi.