Stefan Korff, recent graduate of the University of Münster’s MScIS program, addresses an international audience of almost 300 researchers at the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), hosted by Facebook Inc. in Menlo Park, California. Stefan reports new findings on how to design user interfaces for privacy settings. Specifically, users who are given many privacy options turn out to be less satisfied with their decisions than users who have fewer options and less choice. The results of his human subjects experiment carried out in Münster earlier this year connect two previously unrelated research fields: choice proliferation in consumer psychology and the behavioral aspects of privacy. Stefan is currently affiliated with the IT Security Research Group and will soon join an information security division in the automotive industry.

The full study is available in the conference proceedings, entitled "Too Much Choice? Choice Proliferation in the Context of End-User Privacy Decisions."