A Heuristic Model for Supporting Users’ Decision-Making in Privacy Disclosure for Recommendation
Joint Authors
Cui, Lizhen
Zhang, Huaxiang
Wu, Hongchen
Wang, Xinjun
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-02-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Privacy issues have become a major concern in the web of resource sharing, and users often have difficulty managing their information disclosure in the context of high-quality experiences from social media and Internet of Things.
Recent studies have shown that users’ disclosure decisions may be influenced by heuristics from the crowds, leading to inconsistency in the disclosure volumes and reduction of the prediction accuracy.
Therefore, an analysis of why this influence occurs and how to optimize the user experience is highly important.
We propose a novel heuristic model that defines the data structures of items and participants in social media, utilizes a modified decision-tree classifier that can predict participants’ disclosures, and puts forward a correlation analysis for detecting disclosure inconsistences.
The heuristic model is applied to real-time dataset to evaluate the behavioral effects.
Decision-tree classifier and correlation analysis indeed prove that some participants’ behaviors in information disclosures became decreasingly correlated during item requesting.
Participants can be “persuaded” to change their disclosure behaviors, and the users’ answers to the mildly sensitive items tend to be more variable and less predictable.
Using this approach, recommender systems in social media can thus know the users better and provide service with higher prediction accuracy.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wu, Hongchen& Zhang, Huaxiang& Cui, Lizhen& Wang, Xinjun. 2018. A Heuristic Model for Supporting Users’ Decision-Making in Privacy Disclosure for Recommendation. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214014
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wu, Hongchen…[et al.]. A Heuristic Model for Supporting Users’ Decision-Making in Privacy Disclosure for Recommendation. Security and Communication Networks No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214014
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wu, Hongchen& Zhang, Huaxiang& Cui, Lizhen& Wang, Xinjun. A Heuristic Model for Supporting Users’ Decision-Making in Privacy Disclosure for Recommendation. Security and Communication Networks. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214014
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214014