Designing Privacy Education Interfaces for Families in Informal Learning Settings: Interaction Design Goals

Abstract

Family group discussions are shown to be effective in enhancing children’s critical thinking and decision-making around privacy and cybersecurity. However, existing digital educational interfaces are primarily designed to teach facts and roles, less to facilitate a collaborative discussion or meaning-making about privacy and cybersecurity concepts among family groups. One promising direction is to design such experiences leveraging public informal learning spaces (e.g., museums, libraries) as they offer a valuable platform to interactively engage multi-generational family groups to discuss privacy and cybersecurity concepts. In this workshop paper, we propose a research agenda that leverages public informal learning infrastructures as a platform for engaging families in group discussion and critical thinking about privacy and cybersecurity concepts. Drawing upon their complementary expertise in privacy education and museum learning technology for families, the authors identify four key interaction design goals for building effective privacy education experiences for multi-generational family groups. These experiences aim to facilitate a meaningful discussion around designing interactive privacy and security education interface for families in open-ended informal learning spaces. The "Privacy Interventions and Education (PIE)" workshop at CHI is an ideal setting to share and discuss our evolving understanding at the intersection of privacy education and informal learning technology design.