Teaching privacy with ubicomp scenarios in HCI classes

Privacy is a many-faceted concept and, consequently, designing for privacy is a challenging topic to teach. Privacy in ubicomp environments adds to the challenge, since such environments are still rare and people have not gained experience from interacting in them. Scenarios can be used to make the issues concrete for students. We describe three cases, with different scenarios, different pedagogical goals, different levels of students, and different data collection methods, for teaching about privacy using scenarios. We report on the experiences, both the successes and the pitfalls that need to be taken into account.