SIS Talk Yuanyuan Feng

Join us for a talk from our third candidate in our Faculty Recruitment

Personal Information in a World Full of Emerging Technologies

Emerging computing and information technologies have transformed how people’s personal information is created, stored, transmitted, shared, used, and profited from. Because our personal information is valuable and worth protecting, my research champions the appropriate and meaningful use of personal information in the context of various emerging technologies.

In this talk, I will highlight two streams of my research to that end. The first stream is my applied research to protect personal data privacy in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. I will introduce my current work on a real-world privacy infrastructure that increases the transparency of IoT data privacy and empowers end-users with privacy choices related to IoT. I will also present my applied machine learning research in privacy preference modeling that aims to reduce user burden in personal privacy management. The second stream is my ongoing human-centered health informatics research that leverages personal health information outside of healthcare settings to support proactive personal health management. Specifically, I will present my mixed-methods research examining how long-term fitness tracker users manage personal health information generated by their devices and how they reconcile with health-related self-tracking data. The findings inform the design of empathetic, non-intrusive health tracking technologies that could better support long-term personal health management.