With eye tracking becoming pervasive, researchers face fundamental new challenges regarding privacy and ethics. However, these critical topics have only received little attention in the eye tracking community so far. An active discussion about ethical and social implications as well as issues of data privacy is important for the further development of pervasive eye tracking technology and its acceptance in society.
With a highly successful first event (more than 40 participants) held in conjunction with ETRA 2021, this workshop has established itself as the premier forum for these discussions. Building on the outcomes from last year, we now aim to actively engage researchers and practitioners and help them to start implementing privacy-aware pervasive eye tracking systems.
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from
- eye tracking,
- (usable) privacy,
- human-computer interaction,
- psychology
- and other eye tracking-related research fields,
- and industry.
... to discuss a range of topics including, but not limited to
- Studies on privacy-sensitive information that can be extracted from the eyes
- Empirical analyses of privacy risks for eye tracking users and bystanders
- Analyses of privacy risks from eyes in combination with other modalities and/or body-worn sensors
- Computational methods for privacy-preserving gaze data analysis
- Hardware solutions for privacy-aware and ethical eye tracking
- Ethical considerations on the usage of gaze data for research, in medical devices, in commercial products etc.
- User studies on the awareness of privacy and ethical issues arising from the usage of pervasive eye tracking
Program (Berlin time)
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Opening and introduction |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Input: Aspects of Privacy, Ethics and Law in eye tracking |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Breakouts: Discussions on aspects in eye tracking |
| 12:30 – 01:30 | Lunch break |
| 01:30 – 02:00 | Presentations and Discussion of categories in breakouts |
| 02:00 – 03:00 | Breakouts: Finding an eye-tracking use case |
| 03:00 – 03:30 | Presentation of possible results |
| 03:30 – 04:00 | Coffee break |
| 04:00 – 04:30 | Discussion of solutions in breakouts | 04:30 – 05:00 | Summarizing results of the day and workshop closing |
Organizers
Mayar Elfares - University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mayar Elfares is a first-year PhD student at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Her research interests are
in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, and Privacy. She is conducting her PhD on privacy-preserving attentive user
interface at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems as well as the Institute of Information Security.
Céline Gressel - University of Tuebingen, Germany
Céline Gressel studied sociology, psychology and education in
Tübingen. Simultaneously, in 2011 she started to work at the IZEW. From
March 2016 she worked as a research assistant in INTEGRAM. In December
2018 she started her new project HIVE-Lab whereshe works on the
Sociology of technology, Qualitative methods of empirical social
research, in particular Grounded Theory, Ethics in the sciences and
humanities an especially on the Integration of social, ethical an legal
aspects into technology development.
Murat Karaboga - Competence Center Emerging Technologies of the Fraunhofer
ISI, Germany
Murat Karaboga is a senior researcher and has been working in
the Competence Center Emerging Technologies of the Fraunhofer
ISI since January 2014. His work focuses on policy analysis and
the analysis of governance and actor structures in the domain of
Information and Communication Technologies.
Helmut Lurtz - Novartis
Helmut Lurtz is a lawyer in the field of Data Protection Law
and is currently working for the pharmaceutical company Novar-
tis. Prior, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of
Kassel, where he especially focused on employee data protection
law in Germany.
Rebekah Overdorf - University of
Lausanne
Rebekah Overdorf is an assistant professor at the University of
Lausanne in the School of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Admin-
istration working in security, privacy, and digital forensics, more
specifically: anonymity networks (traffic analysis vulnerabilities
of Tor hidden services), stylometry (authorship attribution based
on writing style), cybercriminal networks, and social media based
attacks with particular expertise and interest in using data science
and machine learning methods to study security.
Michael Raschke - Blickshift GmbH, Germany
Michael Raschke is Co-Founder and managing director of
Blickshift GmbH and an expert for a visualization-based eye movement
analysis. Since 2009 he has been working on new methods and techniques
for the analysis of perceptual and cognitive processes at the Institute
for Visualization and Interactive Systems at the University of
Stuttgart. In 2016 he founded Blickshift GmbH together with two of his
former colleagues from the institute to transfer research results in eye
tracking analysis into commercial products.
Andreas Bulling - University of Stuttgart, Germany
Andreas Bulling is Full Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
and Cognitive Systems at the University of Stuttgart. His research interests are in novel computational
methods and systems to sense, model, and analyze everyday non-verbal
human behavior, specifically gaze. He was one of the organisers and
panelist of the privacy in eye tracking panel at ACM ETRA 2019. He
received his PhD in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
from ETH Zurich and his MSc in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology.