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Computer-supported access control
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Traditionally, access control is understood as a purely technical mechanism which rejects or accepts access attempts automatically according to a specific preconfiguration. However, such a perspective neglects the practices of access control and the embeddedness of technical mechanisms within situated action. In this article, we reconceptualize the issue of access control on a theoretical, methodological, and practical level. On a theoretical level, we develop a terminology to distinguish between access control practices and the technical support mechanisms. We coin the term Computer Supported Access Control (CSAC) to emphasize this perspective. On a methodological level, we discuss empirical investigations of access control behavior from a situated action perspective. We discovered a differentiated set of social practices around traditional access control systems. By applying these findings to a practical level, we enhance the design space of computer supported access control mechanisms by suggesting a matrix of technical mechanisms which go beyond an ex-ante configuration.
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Stevens, G., & Wulf, V. (2009). Computer-supported access control. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 16(3), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1145/1592440.1592441
Stevens, Gunnar, and Volker Wulf. “Computer-supported access control.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 16, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1–26, https://doi.org/10.1145/1592440.1592441.
Stevens, Gunnar, and Volker Wulf. 2009. “Computer-supported access control.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 16 (3): 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1145/1592440.1592441.
Stevens, G. and Wulf, V. (2009) ‘Computer-supported access control’, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 16(3), pp. 1–26. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/1592440.1592441.
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title = {{Computer-supported access control}},
author = {Stevens, Gunnar and Wulf, Volker},
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year = {2009},
doi = {10.1145/1592440.1592441}
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