PRIvacy-aware personal data management and Value Enhancement for Leisure Travellers (PriVELT)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Warwick
Department Name: WMG
Abstract
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Publications
Yuan H
(2022)
Cyber Security Risks of Net Zero Technologies
Wieringa J
(2021)
Data analytics in a privacy-concerned world
in Journal of Business Research
Femenia-Serra F
(2021)
Is smart scary? A mixed-methods study on privacy in smart tourism
in Current Issues in Tourism
Belen-Saglam R
(2023)
A systematic literature review of the tension between the GDPR and public blockchain systems
in Blockchain: Research and Applications
| Description | We have found out a new method for modelling privacy issues using a user-centric graphic model based on flows of personal data shared by a target user, which can be used to automatically detect privacy issues and provide enhanced awareness and recommendations to the user for balancing privacy and value enhanced via data sharing. We have produced a first version of the socio-technical framework for balancing privacy and value enhancement, tailored for leisure travels but generalizable to other application areas. Through analysis of data collected from a large panel survey of leisure travellers, we have identified a number of ways to cluster users into different profiles and a machine learning based method to automatically classify users. Through the development of an Android app for the project, we have proved that it is feasible to implement key components of the socio-technical framework for end users. The app has now a relatively stable version for wider testing and further enhancement. |
| Exploitation Route | the privacy assessment model and software tools can be used by others who wish to measure privacy risks on selective online platforms. The privacy assessment model has also informed the consortium to leverage it as a shared facility to bid for other research opportunities. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail,Transport |
| URL | https://privelt.ac.uk/ |
| Description | The research involved human participants and industrial stakeholders as part of its research, so some non-academic impacts are expected to be be produced. The app we are developing is expected to make a further non-academic impact if widely used by travelers, but it is still too early to see at this stage. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail,Transport |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Description | Dissemination to entrepreneurship group |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Personal Data Economy and opportunities in transforming businesses. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | PhD student training - involvement in research on personal data management platforms |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | A PhD student at the University of Kent has been involved in part-time research of the EPSRC funded project PriVELT (EP/R033749/1, EP/R033609/1), recruited by the University of Warwick but also working with other project members at the University of Kent. His main research is on developing software libraries for a research prototype of the PriVELT project. He started in 2019 and his work is expected to continue until the end of the project. |
| Description | SJTU-Warwick Joint Seed Fund |
| Amount | £9,700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | WMG Accelerator |
| Amount | £730,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | High Value Manufacturing Catapult |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | for 2022 Enabling Grants to Strengthen UK-China Institutional Partnerships through academic collaboration |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Partnership with WMG Accelerator |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Department | WMG Accelerator |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | a working group with the WMG Accelerator, to embed findings and software toolsets into their cohort and maximize impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | making cohort businesses available to pilot findings from the research project. |
| Impact | see software section. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Privelt and CTS Collaboration |
| Organisation | China Travel Service (H.K.) Ltd |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussion on how proposed research and output will change the landscape of how tour operators business model and tourism industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Senior managers has shared their expertise and industry insights in how travellers perceives privacy issues in the current tour operation environment. How travellers expect the privacy landscape to change. How tour operators expect the privacy legislations and compliances may change across different sectors. |
| Impact | workshops with senior managers in CTS on How travellers expect the privacy landscape to change. How tour operators expect the privacy legislations and compliances may change across different sectors. this collaboration is multi-disciplinary, includes expertise in the following field: cyber security Privacy Economics Business Models Entrepreneurship Innovation Social Science Computer Science ML and AI Psychology |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | collaboration with Centre for Business and Industry Transformation |
| Organisation | Nottingham Trent University |
| Department | Nottingham Business School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | informing and exploring opportunities in transforming industry practice via personal ownership of personal data |
| Collaborator Contribution | industry cases from many sectors |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Title | Android libraries for personal data management paltforms |
| Description | As part of the EPSRC funded project PriVELT (EP/R033749/1), a number of Android software libraries have been developed to allow easy access from Android apps to a couple of personal data management platforms (DataBox and HAT, both were outcomes from EPSRC funded projects). The software is still in its early stage of development and will be made open source later. The development started in 2019 and the more stable versions of the libraries were made available in 2020. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | They are still in its early stage, but other team members of the PriVELT project have been looking at using the libraries for developing a research prototype for the project. |
| Title | PriVELT Android app and data extraction libraries |
| Description | As part of the EPSRC funded projects PriVELT (EP/R033749/1) and ACCEPT (EP/P011896/2), work on WP3 aims at producing an Android app that will allow leisure travellers to monitor how their personal data are shared with different entities before, during and after travels and provide personalised recommendations on how to better balance their privacy and travel experience. At the time of this submission (03/2020), a number of Android libraries for automatically logging into different online services and extracting data have been produced, and a first prototype of the Android app has been produced. The app has not been released under an open source license or made publicly available, but the project plans to do so at a later time of the project or after the project's end. A number of student developers have contributed to the development of the software. The development work started in 2019 but the first prototypes were released internally in 2020. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Since the software has not been publicly released, it has not produced impact out of the project team yet. It however helped train a number of MSc students to learn how to conduct applied research. |
| Title | PriVELT Wiki Portal |
| Description | This wiki for PriVELT project provides description for the following items: overview, system architecture, use cases, workflow, technical details, and user manual. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | https://gitlab.com/privelt-uk/privelt_project/-/wikis |
| Title | Privelt Application Portal |
| Description | Android application to centralise known data from different services. The project is funded by PriVELT (https://privelt.ac.uk/). PriVELT aims to make travellers aware of the risks of the Internet. The application collect all private data known by the different services (see Services supported), to inform the user and help him to reduce his privacy risks. PriVELT also monitor local installed applications by checking all the permissions they are asking for, and which permissions are granted by the user. PriVELT does not have a remote server, so all the information is hold locally on the device user. The local database is secured with a password known and chosen only by the user. PriVELT also have scores and charts to help the user to understand the privacy issues he is facing. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | https://gitlab.com/privelt-uk/PriVELT |
| Title | The PriVELT application |
| Description | This is the software developed by three student research assistants based in University of Kent and University of Warwick. According to WP 2.1 Digital platform design and WP 3.2 Software development (client-side), this software was developed with function features such as digital nudging of privacy and value, privacy risk scoring based on algorithms implemented and realtime tracking data flows to other service providers. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | tbc |
| Description | Business Model Transformation driven by Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Compliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session Chair for Business Model Conference 2022 to discuss new business models and ESG, driven by privtech |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with WMG Accelerator |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | a working group with the WMG Accelerator, to embed findings and software toolsets into their cohort, and maximise impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/business/accelerator/ |
| Description | Kent Tech R&D Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Haiyue Yuan presented a poster that provides an overview of PriVELT project at the Kent R&D conference held at University of Kent. At the conference, people with various background (i.e., academic, tourism, and software engineering) were interested in the project and had in-depth discussion with the presenter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.kent.ac.uk/events/event/54151/kent-technology-fair |
| Description | Oral presentation at the 2022 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Haiyue Yuan remotely presented a talk on 'Cyber Security Risks of Net Zero Technologies' at the 2022 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2022). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://attend.ieee.org/dsc-2022/agenda/ |
| Description | Traditional business transformation into digital economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Briefing policymakers and businesses on how digital economy will transform industry and how policy can catch up to facilitate possible transitions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |