Research Projects and Publications at the Privacy Assurance Lab (PAL) @ Penn State

Current projects

Xu, H., Teo, H. H., Tan, B.C.Y., and Agarwal, R. (2009). The Role of Push-Pull Technology in Privacy Calculus: The Case of Location-Based Services, Journal of Management Information Systems, forthcoming. [pdf]
Xu, H. (2009). Consumer Responses to the Introduction of Privacy Protection Measures: An Exploratory Research Framework, International Journal of E-Business Research, Special Issue on the Protection of Privacy in E-Business, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 21-47. [pdf]
Xu, H., Dinev, T., Smith, H. J., and Hart, P. (2008). Examining the Formation of Individual's Information Privacy Concerns: Toward an Integrative View, Proceedings of 29th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paris, France, Paper 6. [pdf]
Xu, H. (2007). The Effects of Self-Construal and Perceived Control on Privacy Concerns, Proceedings of 28th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Montréal, Canada, Paper 125. [pdf]
Xu, H., Teo, H. H., and Tan, B.C.Y. (2006). Information Privacy in the Digital Era: An Exploratory Research Framework, Proceedings of 12th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2006, pp.900-906. [pdf]

Xu, H., Irani, N., Zhu, S., and Xu, W. (2008). Alleviating Parental Concerns for Children's Online Privacy: A Value Sensitive Design Investigation, Proceedings of 29th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paris, France, Paper 106. [pdf]
Xu, H., and Wang, H. (2008). A Value Sensitive Design Investigation of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in E-Commerce, Annual Workshop on Information Security and Assurance, Milwaukee, WI, Dec. 2006.
Wang, H., and Xu, H. (2005). The Design of Bluetooth-Enabled Location-Based Advertising Application, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2005.

Xu, H., and Gupta, S. (2009). The Effects of Privacy Concerns and Personal Innovativeness on Potential and Experienced Customers' Adoption of Location-Based Services, Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 137-149. [pdf]
Xu, H., Rosson, M.B., and Carroll, J.M. (2008). Mobile Users' Privacy Decision Making: Integrating Economic Exchange and Social Justice Perspectives, Proceedings of 14th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
Xu, H. (2007). Privacy Considerations in the Adoption of Location-Based Services: A Psychological Control Perspective, Proceedings of 67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 2007.
Xu, H., Teo, H. H., and Tan, B.C.Y. (2005). Predicting the Adoption of Location-Based Services: The Roles of Trust and Privacy Risk, Proceedings of 26th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Las Vegas, Nevada, 897-910. [pdf]

Hoadley, M. C., Xu, H., Lee, J., Rosson, M. B. (2009). Privacy as Information Access and Illusory Control: The Case of the Facebook News Feed Privacy Outcry, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Special Issue on Social Networks and Web 2.0, forthcoming. [pdf]
Dinev, T., Xu, H., and Smith, H. J. (2009). Information Privacy Values, Beliefs and Attitudes: An Empirical Analysis of Web 2.0 Privacy, Proceedings of 42th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Big Island, Hawaii, Jan. 2009.

Gupta, S., Garg, M., Xu, H., and Goh, M. (2009) RFID and Supply Chain Visibility, In B. Unhelkar (Ed.), Handbook of Research in Mobile Business (2nd edition), IGI Global, pp 368-374.
Fung, C. M. B., Cao, M., Desai, B. C., and Xu, H. (2009). Privacy Protection for RFID Data, Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Special Track on Database Theory, Technology, and Applications (DTTA), Honolulu, HI, March 2009, 1528-1535. [pdf]

Xu, H., Oh, L. B., and Teo, H. H. (2009) Perceived Effectiveness of Text versus Multimedia Location-Based Advertising Messaging, International Journal of Mobile Communications, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.154-177. [pdf]
Melonas, R. T., Bagby, W. J., and Xu, H. (2008) Consumer Privacy and the Regulation of Wireless Advertising Messages (WAM), Presented at the 36th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC), Arlington, VA, Sept. 2008 (poster).
Xu, H., and Teo, H. H. (2005) Privacy Considerations in Location-Based Advertising, In C. Sorensen, Y. Yoo, K. Lyytinen, and J. I. DeGross (Ed.), Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges, Springer, 2005, pp.71-90.