THEIA-XR: Prototypes for privacy-related Questions (First Version) (D3.3)

This deliverable continues and expands upon the work conducted under the co-design approach (D3.2 and D3.4) to establish a set of procedures that help identify and actively verify privacy concerns during the development of Extended Reality (XR) technologies for off-highway machinery. Developing these technologies using a privacy-by-design approach requires promoting a privacy mindset among all stakeholders and implementing comprehensive procedures to understand how end users perceive these features from privacy and ethical standpoints at each stage of development. To meet these requirements, we needed to develop procedures to evaluate the privacy and ethical concerns of all stakeholders, including end users of the machinery.

In the THEIA-XR project, we proposed and tested several qualitative methods to address these concerns. We also outlined a selection of quantitative methods that can be used in later project stages to validate the project’s privacy and ethical goals with a wider audience of end users in the professional field. However, since we chose an interdisciplinary co-design approach for our user and stakeholder studies, we prioritize qualitative, in-depth methodologies to achieve our goals.

The presented deliverable is organized as follows: First, we explain the main theoretical concepts that motivated the development of elicitation and evaluation procedures. Then, we present a step-by-step procedure we applied to use the selected methodology with the end users. Being slightly ahead of the planning schedule, we already made a pretest of the discussed procedures to show their applicability in the domain of off-highway machinery. We also provide the preliminary results of applying the procedure, evaluate its applicability, and suggest ideas for adjustments. Finally, we propose additional methods we plan to use in the final validation stage of the development of XR enhancements in addition to the procedures that have been made. The results of our work will inform D3.6 Context-of-use Analysis and D3.7 Interaction Scenarios (final version). After further re-evaluation with stakeholders, these findings will be presented in D3.8 Prototypes for privacy-related questions (final version). Additionally, the work carried out under task T3.3, The Co-design of Ethics and Privacy Control Mechanisms, has informed D7.3, the Design Guidelines, and the Validation Reports for privacy (first version).