The effects of ontology-based and password-protected blog access control on perceived privacy benefit and perceived ease of use
| Autor: | Chi-Lun Liu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Scheme (programming language) business.industry Computer science Mechanism (biology) Control (management) Internet privacy Access control Usability Ontology (information science) Theoretical Computer Science Control and Systems Engineering Computer Science (miscellaneous) Laboratory experiment business Engineering (miscellaneous) computer Social Sciences (miscellaneous) computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Kybernetes. 43:325-340 |
| ISSN: | 0368-492X |
| DOI: | 10.1108/k-12-2013-0264 |
| Popis: | Purpose – This work empirically evaluates the effectiveness of the novel ontology-based access-control mechanism and the common password-protected access-control mechanism for social blogs. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The ontology-based access-control scheme is designed to fit two characteristics of blog activities: social relationships and tags. A laboratory experiment is conducted to assess the perceived privacy benefit and perceived ease of use of the two mechanisms. Findings – Analytical results indicate that, with the ontology-based access-control scheme, users perceive more privacy benefit than with the password-protected access-control scheme. The perceived ease of use with the ontology-based and password-protected access-control systems did not differ significantly. Research limitations/implications – Cross-boundary collaborations need an appropriate approach to control communication access. Further study is required to evaluate the ontology-based access-control scheme applied in cross-organizational and cross-departmental collaborations. Practical implications – From a knowledge management perspective, blogs can store personal and organizational knowledge and experiences. The ontology-based access-control scheme encourages knowledge sharing for appropriate persons. Originality/value – The new ontology-based access-control mechanism can help online users keep secrets from selected people to gain more privacy benefits than the existing password-protected access-control mechanism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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