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Family accounts: a new paradigm for user accounts within the home environment

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A.J. Bernheim Brush,

Kori M. InkpenAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 669 - 678

https://doi.org/10.1145/1460563.1460666

Published: 08 November 2008 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present Family Accounts, a new user account model for shared home computers. We conducted a study with sixteen families, eight who used individual profiles at home, and eight who shared a single profile. Our results demonstrate that Family Accounts is a good compromise between a single shared profile and individual profiles for each family member. In particular, we observed that because Family Accounts allowed individuals to switch profiles without forcing them to interrupt their tasks, family members tended to switch to their own profiles only when a task required some degree of privacy or personalization.

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Family accounts: a new paradigm for user accounts within the home environment
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Security and privacy
  1. Systems security
    1. Operating systems security

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