While we put great effort in protecting digital devices and data; there is a lack of research on usable techniques to secure personalitems that we carry in public space. To better understand situationswhere ubiquitous technologies could help secure personal items; we conducted an online survey (N=101) in which we collected real-world stories from users reporting on personal items, either at riskof, or actually being lost, damaged or stolen. We found that themajority of cases occurred in (semi-)public spaces during afternoonand evening times, when users left their items. From these results; we derived a model of incidents involving personal items in publicspace as well as a set of properties to describe situations wherepersonal items may be at risk. We discuss reoccurring properties ofthe scenarios, potential multimedia-based protection mechanismsfor securing personal items in public space as well as future researchsuggestions    «

While we put great effort in protecting digital devices and data; there is a lack of research on usable techniques to secure personalitems that we carry in public space. To better understand situationswhere ubiquitous technologies could help secure personal items; we conducted an online survey (N=101) in which we collected real-world stories from users reporting on personal items, either at riskof, or actually being lost, damaged or stolen. We found that themajority of cases occurred in (semi-...    »