Dr. David Harborth

• User perceptions related to immersive systems and technology acceptance research, especially Augmented Reality (AR)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intelligence Augmentation (IA) and possible effects on the work life
• Privacy of individuals in the digital sphere, including analyses of privacy concerns and their ramifications with regard to technology use
• Informational self-determination of individuals through privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and user adoption
• Technology acceptance with a special focus on new concepts from related disciplines

Selected Publications

Research on Augmented Reality

• Harborth, D. and Frik, A. (2021). “Evaluating and Redefining Smartphone Permissions with Contextualized Justifications for Mobile Augmented Reality Apps”, In: USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), pp. 1-21.
  [CORE Conference Ranking: B, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]
  Video of the paper presentation in the extended version and in the short version.
  Previous version presented at the CLTC Symposium on Data Rights, Privacy, and Security in AI.
• Harborth, D. and Pape, S. (2021). “Investigating Privacy Concerns related to Mobile Augmented Reality Applications – A Vignette Based Online Experiment”, Computers in Human Behavior, 122, pp. 1-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106833.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Journal Ranking: -, ABDC Journal Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]
• Harborth, D. and Kreuz, H. (2020). “Exploring the Attitude Formation Process of Individuals towards New Technologies: The Case of Augmented Reality”, International Journal of Technology Marketing, 14(2), pp. 125-153, DOI: 10.1504/IJTMKT.2020.110128.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Journal Ranking: -, ABDC Journal Ranking: C, VHB-JOURQUAL3: k.R.]
• Harborth, D. and Pape, S. (2019). “Investigating Privacy Concerns related to Mobile Augmented Reality Applications”, In: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), pp. 1-9. Munich, Germany.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Conference Ranking: A*, VHB-JOURQUAL3: A]
• Harborth, D., Hatamian, M., Tesfay, W. B., Pape, S. (2019). “A Two-Pillar Approach to Analyze the Privacy Policies and Resource Access Behaviors of Mobile Augmented Reality Applications”, In: 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), pp. 5029-5038. Maui, US.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Conference Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: C]
• Harborth, D. (2019). “Unfolding Concerns about Augmented Reality Technologies: A Qualitative Analysis of User Perceptions”, In: Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), pp. 1262-1276. Siegen, Germany.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Conference Ranking: C, VHB-JOURQUAL3: C]
• Kohn, V. and Harborth, D. (2018). “Augmented Reality – A Game Changing Technology For Manufacturing Processes?”, In: 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), pp. 1-19. Portsmouth, UK.
  [CORE Conference Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: B]
• Harborth, D. and Pape, S. (2018). “Privacy Concerns and Behavior of Pokémon Go Players in Germany”, In: Hansen M., Kosta E., Nai-Fovino I., Fischer-Hübner S. (eds) Privacy and Identity Management. The Smart Revolution. Privacy and Identity 2017. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 526, pp. 314-329. Springer, Cham, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92925-5_21.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Conference Ranking: -, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]
• Harborth, D. and Pape, S. (2017). “Exploring the Hype: Investigating Technology Acceptance Factors of Pokémon Go”, In: 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pp. 155-168. Nantes, France. DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR.2017.32.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Conference Ranking: A*, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]
• Harborth, D. (2017). “Augmented Reality in Information Systems Research: A Systematic Literature Review”, In: Twenty-third Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), pp. 1-10. Boston, US.
  (Part of my cumulative PhD thesis)
  [CORE Conference Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: D]

Research on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

• Harborth, D. and Pape, S. (2020). “How Privacy Concerns, Trust and Risk Beliefs and Privacy Literacy Influence Users’ Intentions to Use Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - The Case of Tor”, ACM SIGMIS Database, 51(1), pp. 51-69. DOI: 10.1145/3380799.3380805.
  [CORE Journal Ranking: B, ABDC Journal Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: B]
• Harborth, D., Pape, S., Rannenberg, K. (2020). “Explaining the Technology Use Behavior of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: The Case of Tor and JonDonym”, In: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs20), 2020(2), pp. 111-128. DOI: 10.2478/popets-2020-0020.
  [CORE Conference Ranking: B, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]
  Online presentation of the article at the virtual PETS 2020 conference
• Harborth, D., Cai, X., Pape, S. (2019). “Why Do People Pay for Privacy- Enhancing Technologies? The Case of Tor and JonDonym”, In: 34th IFIP TC-11 SEC 2019 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC). Lisbon, Portugal. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22312-0_18. (Nominated for best student paper award).
  [CORE Conference Ranking: B, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]

Research on Technology Acceptance of Innovative Technologies

• Harborth, D. and Pape, S. (2020). “How Nostalgic Feelings Impact Pokémon Go Players - Integrating Childhood Brand Nostalgia into the Technology Acceptance Theory”, Behaviour & Information Technology, 39(12), pp. 1276-1296. DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2019.1662486.
  [CORE Journal Ranking: A, ABDC Journal Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]
• Harborth, D. and Pape, S. (2020). “Empirically Investigating Extraneous Influences on the “APCO” Model – Childhood Brand Nostalgia and the Positivity Bias”, Future Internet, 12(12), pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.3390/fi12120220.
  [CORE Journal Ranking: -, ABDC Journal Ranking: -, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]
• Tronnier, F., Hamm, P., Harborth, D. (2020). “The Role Of Behavioural Biases And Personality Traits Of Retail Investors In ICOs”, In: Twenty-Eight European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
  [CORE Conference Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: B]

Research on Information Security

• Schmitz, C., Schmid, M., Harborth, D., Pape, S. (2021). “Maturity Level Assessments of Information Security Controls: An Empirical Analysis of Practitioners‘ Assessment Capabilities”, Computers & Security, 108, pp. 102306. DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2021.102306.
  [CORE Journal Ranking: B, ABDC Journal Ranking: A, VHB-JOURQUAL3: -]

For all publications see: Google Scholar DBLP ResearchGate

2022:

• Interview about Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in the German IT magazine com! professional (www.com-magazin.de) (Issue 04/2022)