Intelligent Privacy Support for Large Public Displays

Carsten Röcker 1, Steve Hinske 2, Carsten Magerkurth 1 

1 Fraunhofer IPSI, AMBIENTE - Smart Environments of the Future Dolivostraße 
15, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany, {roecker, magerkurth}@ipsi.fraunhofer.de 2 
Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zürich Clausiusstr. 59, 8092 Zürich, 
Switzerland, steve.hinske@inf.ethz.ch 

This paper presents a novel concept for personalized privacy support on large 
public displays. In a first step, a formative evaluation was conducted in 
order to analyze the requirements of potential users regarding the protection 
of private information on large public displays. The insights gained in this 
evaluation were used to design a system, which automatically adapts the 
information visible on public displays according to the current social 
situation and the individual privacy preferences of the user working on the 
display. The developed system was evaluated regarding its appropriateness for 
daily usage and its usefulness to protect privacy.