Section: New Results

Interdisciplinarity in practice: Challenges and benefits for privacy research

Participant : Daniel Le Métayer.

The objective of this work was to draw the lessons learned from a project that involved security systems engineers, computer scientists, lawyers and social scientists. Since one of the goals of the project was to propose actual solutions following the privacy by design approach, its aim was to go beyond multidisciplinarity and build on the variety of expertise available in the consortium to follow a true interdisciplinary approach. We have described the challenges before analyzing the solutions adopted by the project to meet them and the outcomes and benefits of the approach. We have concluded the study with some lessons to be drawn from this experience and recommendations for future interdisciplinary projects.