Summar
Summar is a browser extension built with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Google Chrome’s APIs to simplify the privacy policies of various e-commerce websites. The design for *Summar* follows human-computer interaction design principles to deliver a bullet-point formatted summary of such policies within a user-friendly interface. No matter the user’s familiarity with data security or privacy, merchant policies will be readily accessible, therefore informing users before they make a purchase.
This extension was created as part of a research project into understanding user privacy and security, the accompanying research paper and the results from our user study can be found below.
While this project was a group effort, I was responsible for the back-end development as well as the writing & formatting the paper.