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Showing 1 to 20 of 246 for “"Personal information"”.
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Pervasive Personal Information Spaces
Each user’s electronic information-interaction uniquely matches their information behaviour, activities and work context. In the ubiquitous computing environment, this information-interaction and the underlying personal information is distributed across multiple personal devices. This thesis …
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Semantic structure of personal information
… are earliest, followed by access to semantic information, followed by naming. To date, the stage involved in semantic decisions has received least attention. Thus, relatively little is known about how we store personal semantic information. More research into this stage is necessary if we are …
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Customizable application for personal information management
… must be developed to help end users curate that information. The information management tools available today are limited in several ways. They are either restrictive in how users define and organize their data, or they offer few options in how users can view and interact with that data. In this …
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Digital persona : a gateway to personal information
A Digital Persona (DP) is a gateway to a set of personal information, such as phone numbers and email addresses. Applications and devices which use personal information, such as electronic calendars and cellular phones, can manage this information by using a DP. Information which is accessible …
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Property rights in personal information: A South African perspective
… development of new products and business models. Personal information is a central element of these novel business models. Data subjects can exchange their personal information for goods and services, and businesses generate revenue by monetising such information. While the nexus between …
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Are language models leaking personal information? Memorization vs. Association
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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WILLINGNESS TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY PERSPECTIVE
<p>Health information technologies (HITs) enable healthcare providers to store comprehensive healthcare consumer records electronically and allow information exchange between healthcare consumers and providers. While recent years have seen significant growth in the assimilation of HIT among …
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Smart PIN: performance and cost-oriented context-aware personal information network
… which enable easy acquisition and storage of information as pictures, movies, emails, etc. Therefore, the information overload and divergent content’s characteristics make it difficult for users to handle their data in manual way. Consequently, there is a need for personalised automatic …
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Privacy, Self-Sovereign Identity Technology and the Willingness to Provide Personal Information
… an unprecedented increase in the amount of personal information that is available online. This personal information has been harnessed directly by companies, to provide targeted marketing to 3rd parties. It can also be used for a company's own internal marketing communication practices. …
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Effort, memory, attention and time : paths to more effective personal information management
… tools for storing, accessing, and sharing information, why is so much information still lost, forgotten, or kept on paper? The work in this thesis finds that such disorganization results from problems in the designs of the personal information management (PIM) tools in common use today. …
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Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices
… and cell phones are often used to manage users' personal information, such as files, calendars, contacts, emails, and bookmarks. This dissertation presents the results of two studies that examined users' mental workload in this context, especially when transitioning tasks from one device to …
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Personal Information Environment: A Framework for Managing Personal Files across a Set of Devices
… many devices in our daily lives including personal computers, laptops, cellular devices and many more. The data we need for our processing needs is scattered among these devices. The availability of all the scattered data in the devices in use associated to an individual user as one is …
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Electronic Multi-agency Collaboration. A Model for Sharing Children¿s Personal Information Among Organisations.
The sharing of personal information among health and social service organisations is a complex issue and problematic process in present-day England. Organisations which provide services to children face enormous challenges on many fronts. Internal ways of working, evolving best practice, data …
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Personal information organization and re-access in computer folders: an empirical study of information workers
… (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Library and Information Science (ID: 449) No. of bitstreams: 4 Zhang_Hong.pdf.txt: 296445 bytes, checksum: 1a93129929ffddffd2e64ba4a4b1bbb2 (MD5) Zhang_Hong.pdf: 1948551 bytes, checksum: 995f03ca04660192500ae53a56f8b811 (MD5) license.txt: 4059 bytes, checksum: …
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A model to assess organisational information privacy maturity against the Protection of Personal Information Act
Reports on information security breaches have risen dramatically over the past five years with 2014 accounting for some high-profile breaches including Goldman Sachs, Boeing, AT&T, EBay, AOL, American Express and Apple to name a few. One report estimates that 868,045,823 records have been breached …
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Digital privacy and new media: an empirical study assessing the impact of privacy seals on personal information disclosure.
… maximizers when making decisions involving personal information disclosure. Theoretical approaches have since developed to account for factors explored by bounded rationality and behavioural economics where individuals engage in complex trade-offs when making privacy disclosure decisions. …
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Measuring the implications of Vicarious Liability under the Protection of Personal Information Act in Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises in South Africa
Protecting personal information has become of utmost importance in the digital age. The South African Protection of Personal Information Act has in some ways given the customer more control over how companies can contact them or sell their information to third parties. While this Act is in the best …
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Towards co-production of technology artefacts with a disabled community: A case study with deaf people and protection of personal information with video relay services
… limited video relay services; the Protection of Personal Information Act was recently introduced, and South African Sign Language became the 12th official language. Thus, we ask: What are the major considerations for moving from co-design to co-production of technological artefacts with a case …
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An Analysis of the Influence of Cultural Backgrounds of Individuals upon their Perspective towards Privacy within Internet Activities
… is an important consideration for users of information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly when using computer-mediated communication (CMC), i.e. Internet usage. Several researchers have studied privacy issues by taking into account the views of users to include individuals, …
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