CENS Technical Seminar Series

Designing the Personal Data Stream: Enabling Participatory Privacy in Mobile Personal Sensing

Invited Speaker: Katie Shilton
Date: July 24, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: 3551BH Main Conference Room

Abstract

Mobile sensing harnesses mobile phone capabilities, such as location awareness, image capture, motion sensitivity, and user input, to create a platform for individual discovery and community exploration. Transforming mobile phones into ubiquitous systems for data capture and analysis poses challenges both technical and social. Among these challenges is empowering users to understand and control their data as they sense and share information at unprecedented granularity and scale.

Biography

Katie Shilton is a doctoral student in Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She coordinates a project with the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) exploring and responding to privacy and ethical challenges raised by ubiquitous sensing technologies. Before joining CENS, Katie worked on privacy research with faculty in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies. She received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 2003 and a Masters of Library and Information Science from UCLA in 2007. Her work is supported by a grant from the NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering program (IIS-0832873).