Privacy Attitudes toward Mouse-Tracking Paradata Collection
Henninger, Felix (Maximilians-Universität München)
Kieslich, Pascal J (University of Mannheim)
Fernández-Fontelo, Amanda (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Matemàtiques)
Greven, Sonja (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Kreuter, Frauke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Data:	2023
Resum:	Survey participants' mouse movements provide a rich, unobtrusive source of paradata, offering insight into the response process beyond the observed answers. However, the use of mouse tracking may require participants' explicit consent for their movements to be recorded and analyzed. Thus, the question arises of how its presence affects the willingness of participants to take part in a survey at all-if prospective respondents are reluctant to complete a survey if additional measures are recorded, collecting paradata may do more harm than good. Previous research has found that other paradata collection modes reduce the willingness to participate, and that this decrease may be influenced by the specific motivation provided to participants for collecting the data. However, the effects of mouse movement collection on survey consent and participation have not been addressed so far. In a vignette experiment, we show that reported willingness to participate in a survey decreased when mouse tracking was part of the overall consent. However, a larger proportion of the sample indicated willingness to both take part and provide mouse-tracking data when these decisions were combined, compared to an independent opt-in to paradata collection, separated from the decision to complete the study. This suggests that survey practitioners may face a trade-off between maximizing their overall participation rate and maximizing the number of participants who also provide mouse-tracking data. Explaining motivations for paradata collection did not have a positive effect and, in some cases, even reduced participants' reported willingness to take part in the survey.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicat a:	Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 87, Num. S1 (August 2023) , p. 602-618, ISSN 1537-5331

DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfad034
PMID: 37705922

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