This book covers topics needed to be considered in research around usable privacy. The book
starts from a psychological perspective and introduces readers to basic behavioral theories and
models that can explain end-user privacy behavior (including the privacy paradox) on a
theoretical level. Subsequently an introduction to different study methods (e.g. experiment
survey interviews co-creation) used in usable privacy research is given. Based on this
different methodological aspects such as identifying appropriate questionnaires and applying
User-Centered Design will be discussed. Finally the book describes application areas for
privacy research such as dark patterns and presents solutions for privacy protection e.g.
regarding consent-giving and PETs. The book aims to bring together the different research
approaches to the topic of usable privacy which often originate from computer science
psychology and law and provide a methodologically sound basis for researchers who want to
delve deeper into this topic. This is an open access book.
