Inside Out or Not: Privacy Implications of Emotional Disclosure
<|reference_start|>Inside Out or Not: Privacy Implications of Emotional Disclosure: Privacy is dynamic, sensitive, and contextual, much like our emotions. Previous studies have explored the interplay between privacy and context, privacy and emotion, and emotion and context. However, there remains a significant gap in understanding the interplay of these aspects simultaneously. In this paper, we present a preliminary study investigating the role of emotions in driving individuals' information sharing behaviour, particularly in relation to urban locations and social ties. We adopt a novel methodology that integrates context (location and time), emotion, and personal information sharing behaviour, providing a comprehensive analysis of how contextual emotions affect privacy. The emotions are assessed with both self-reporting and electrodermal activity (EDA). Our findings reveal that self-reported emotions influence personal information-sharing behaviour with distant social groups, while neutral emotions lead individuals to share less precise information with close social circles, a pattern is potentially detectable with wrist-worn EDA. Our study helps lay the foundation for personalised emotion-aware strategies to mitigate oversharing risks and enhance user privacy in the digital age.<|reference_end|>
@article{naghizade2024inside,
    title={Inside Out or Not: Privacy Implications of Emotional Disclosure},
    author={Elham Naghizade, Kaixin Ji, Benjamin Tag, and Flora Salim},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11805},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1145/3675094.3677598},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.11805},
    primaryClass={cs.CY}
}