This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Northeastern University aims to develop innovative, empathy-based frameworks to enhance privacy education and responsible software development practices.
The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include:
- Systems that invoke empathy to improve internet users' privacy literacy and decision-making
- Empathy-based developer tools to help software engineers proactively identify and address diverse user privacy needs during the development lifecycle
- Privacy literacy educational modules with hands-on, experiential learning components for under-resourced user and developer communities
By leveraging AI-generated synthetic persona data, this project seeks to create more concrete, situated understandings of privacy among both internet users and software developers, ultimately fostering positive privacy-oriented behaviors and responsible data practices. No sub-awards are planned for this grant.
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