PIONEER
The ATHENE PIONEER (A PrIvacy companion for mOtivatioN and knowlEdge transfER) project is an interdisciplinary project that addresses one of the key challenges in this century for users: remaining control over their private data.
PIONEER aims to empower users in their digital sovereignty by providing them with the necessary knowledge and motivating them to acquire and apply competencies in their everyday digital lives.
This will be realized through the user-centered development of a digital privacy companion in the form of a mobile app in which users can (1) acquire the necessary knowledge about digital contexts enabling them to make self-determined and informed decisions about how to handle their data.
Furthermore, (2) through the application of psychological theories in the design, the digital privacy companion supports users in showing and maintaining privacy-aware behavior in the long-term.
Lastly, (3) different user groups (e.g., elderly people, adolescents) are taken into account to derive and consider specifics, such as different psychological needs that drive human behavior or different knowledge levels, resulting in different user requirements.
Additionally, PIONEER employs a participatory co-creation process, integrating insights from both privacy experts and lay users.
