About the Project
The Citizens Data Agency project is a design research project exploring people’s data advice needs both today and in the future, with the aim of understanding how to better enhance privacy and security for people using digital technologies. We are seeing technologies being embedded within all aspects of our lives, within our cities, homes and pockets. These interactions create large amounts of information/data which are captured by private organisations and governments and have potential benefits, but also increased privacy risks.
The conversations around digital privacy do not normally involve people from marginalised groups, so their needs and experience are not included in the design of support and advice. For this project we are working with people from minority ethnic communities to explore current and future data advice and co-design a series of interventions around their experiences and needs.
This project is funded by the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) and Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Team
Dr Bettina Nissen
Bettina is a Lecturer in Interaction Design and researcher in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
bettina.nissen@ed.ac.uk
Hattie Simms
Hattie is a Research Associate in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
hsimms@ed.ac.uk
Contact Us
If you would like to hear more about the project or would like to collaborate or connect, please do get in touch. You can email Hattie Simms at hsimms@ed.ac.uk or Bettina Nissen at bettina.nissen@ed.ac.uk
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