Digital nudging and privacy: improving decisions about self-disclosure in social networks

Understanding User Preferences of Digital Privacy Nudges – A Best-Worst Scaling Approach

“…In IS research, nudging has become more and more relevant and has led to the concept of digital nudging [4,10]. Today's decisions are made online and digital nudging can support individuals in guiding them in a certain direction [11]. At the same time, digital environments offer significantly different options for nudging compared to offline environments [4].…”

“…Kissmer et al [14], and Kroll [11] compare the concept of nudging with persuasion which is described as a form of communication between individuals with the aim to influence autonomous judgements and actions of individuals [15]. A persuasive technology on the other hand changes the attitudes and behavior of individuals [15].…”

“…Finally, progress bars were identified as privacy nudge mechanisms. Normally, a progress bar is used to document the users progress of completing an online profile he or she has to edit [11]. Regarding privacy issues, progress bars are for example used to highlight the degree of how much privacy-related information is shared or to visualize password strength [29].…”

Digital Nudging in Social Media Disaster Communication

“…The concept of digital nudging has already been applied in various digital choice environments spanning several disciplines: It has been applied in digital environments to drive individuals towards better decisions regarding their health (Miesler et al, 2017), but also in the context of enterprises, for example, to influence the behaviour of employees and support them with their decisions (Kissmer et al, 2018). Other fields of application in which digital nudges were found to be significantly effective are Pro-Environmental Behaviour (Henkel et al, 2019), education (Yeomans & Reich, 2017), e-commerce (Eigenbrod & Janson, 2018), security, and privacy (Acquisti et al, 2017;Kroll & Stieglitz, 2019). In all of these environments nudges are embodied through the design choices taken when designing the user interface.…”

Automatic Re-Formulation of user’s Irrational Behavior in Speech Recognition using Acoustic Nudging Model

“…Nudge theory enables the re-formulation, analysis, tracking, improvement, design or re-designing of people's thinking and decision-making. This nudge theory has also been extended to the digital environment to give the concept known as digital nudging as it involves utilizing user interface design elements so as to affect user's choice by guiding people's behavior in digital choice environments through the use of userinterface design such as web-based forms and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) screens (Weinmann et al, 2016;Kroll and Stieglitz, 2019). Nudging works because people do not always behave rationally especially when dealing with a particular application.…”