In activity-logging field studies, even anonymized data export was refused by a majority of participants, and named-author mood sharing was accepted by most participants¶
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Currency · newest study 2021 · checked against its sources 2026-10-27 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person
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q2 i? Despite hashed anonymized CSV export, a majority of participants in Cases 1 and 2 decided against handing activity-log data to researchers. → Pammer-Schindler 2021
q2 i? In Case 4, comfort with sharing self-tracked mood data was overall positive, though three out of 29 participants reported discomfort. → Pammer-Schindler 2021 (2)
Evidence¶
Pammer-Schindler 2021¶
Pammer-Schindler, V. & Rosé, C. (2021). Data-Related Ethics Issues in Technologies for Informal Professional Learning. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00259-x
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Field studies of the KnowSelf activity logger in a German medium-sized company; the anonymized export "hashed filenames, manual labels, and notes, and left only timestamps and application names intact". No effect sizes.
"Even with this anonymization, a majority of study participants in Cases 1 and 2 in the end decided against handing out this data to researchers."
Pammer-Schindler 2021 (2)¶
Pammer-Schindler, V. & Rosé, C. (2021). Data-Related Ethics Issues in Technologies for Informal Professional Learning. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00259-x
q2 · i? · qualitative · r2
Case 4 field study in four business-2-business call-center teams using the MoodMap App with named authors; logged mood data showed a balanced distribution of positive and negative entries. No effect sizes.
"Explicit questions about how comfortable users were with sharing the self-tracked data elicited an overall positive response. Nonetheless, even here, three out of 29 study participants reported not being comfortable with data sharing."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Manual tracking cases showed no substantial privacy concerns while automatic activity-tracking cases raised consistent privacy concerns — related
- Learning is not an a priori shared goal of stakeholders in informal workplace learning settings, which undermines trust in data collection for learning — a broader claim this one bears on
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In activity-logging field studies, even anonymized data export was refused by a majority of participants, and named-author mood sharing was accepted by most participants |
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In activity-logging field studies, even anonymized data export was refused by a majority of participants, and named-author mood sharing was accepted by most participants |
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