Teenagers’ Attitudes and Design Values around Identity Management

Technologies and public policies in relation to identity management (IDM) are changing rapidly and our understanding of public attitudes to such change is not well developed. In this paper we consider attitudes to new and near-future IDM technologies in groups of vulnerable teenagers. This paper describes how we engaged with these groups, giving examples of our use of ‘design provocations’ that took the form of film, artifacts and props. These provocations were generally successful in prompting discussion through focus group and workshop formats and in seeding the elicitation of design values in this space. Author