This week, CIPR hosted the first cross-institutional team meeting for the NSF EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to pursue a research collaboration on “Mapping Privacy and Surveillance Dynamics in Emerging Mobile Ecosystems: Practices and Contexts in the Netherlands and US“.

Participants were: Dr. Jessica Vitak, Priya Kumar, and Yuting Liao (University of Maryland); Dr. Jason Pridmore, Dr. Daniel Trottier, and Anouk Mols (Erasmus University); and Dr. Michael Zimmer and Katie Chamberlain Kritikos (UW-Milwaukee).

The US-based team reported on preliminary results from their study on privacy, mobile health, and fitness trackers, while the Dutch team reported on their initial study on privacy and mobile messaging apps. The two teams will next coordinate on a cross-cultural study of user interactions with intelligent digital personal assistants (such as Siri or Alexa). A stakeholder workshop is planned for summer 2018 in College Park, MD. Stay tuned for details!