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Viktorija Paneva
Embodied Privacy Consent as a Design Probe for Rethinking Privacy Decisions
In CHI EA '26: Proceedings of the CHI 2026 Workshop "Moving Beyond Clicks: Rethinking Consent and User Control in the Age of AI". April 14, 2026. (bib)

Consent mechanisms today predominantly rely on notice-and-choice approaches, placing the burden of privacy decision-making on the individual. These approaches are often front-loaded and detached from the moments when the data is required, leaving users to perform repetitive consent tasks with limited understanding of consequences. This position paper explores embodied privacy consent as a design probe to examine when, how, and whether active decision-making may be required. Drawing on an initial exploration of an embodied consent mechanism in Virtual Reality (VR), in which users enact consent through embodied action, we reflect on how such interactions make the act of consent experiential, allowing us to examine when active consent supports autonomy and when it becomes too burdensome or impractical. We argue that the embodied privacy consent probe can serve as a lens for surfacing tensions between explicit user control, delegated decision-making, and emerging hybrid models. We conclude by outlining potential consequences and future research directions for rethinking privacy decision-making in sensor-rich environments.