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SoK: The Dual Nature of Technology in Sexual Abuse

SoK: The Dual Nature of Technology in Sexual Assault

This paper systematizes and contextualizes the existing body of knowledge on technology’s dual nature regarding sexual abuse: facilitator of it and assistant to its prevention, reporting, and restriction. By reviewing 224 research papers, we identified 10 characteristics of technology that facilitate sexual abuse: covertness, publicness, anonymity, evolution, boundlessness, reproducibility, accessibility, indispensability, malleability, and opaqueness. We […]

Why Implicit Authentication is Hard to Understand

Why Implicit Authentication is Hard to Understand

Implicit authentication (IA) has recently become a popular approach for providing physical security on smartphones. It relies on behavioural traits (e.g., gait patterns) for user identification, instead of biometric data or knowledge of a PIN. However, it is not yet known whether users can understand the semantics of this technology well enough to use it […]

LERSSE Paper Gets Accepted at SOUPS 2020

LERSSE Paper Gets Accepted at SOUPS 2020

LERSSE paper titled “Towards Understanding Privacy and Trust in Online Reporting of Sexual Assault” has been accepted for publication at the Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2020. The paper will be presented at the conference holding later in the year.

LERSSE Paper Gets Accepted at CHI 2020

LERSSE Paper Gets Accepted at CHI 2020

LERSSE paper “The Burden of Ending Online Account Sharing” has been accepted at CHI 2020.

LERSSE Paper Receives a Honourable Mention at CHI 2020

LERSSE Paper Receives a Honourable Mention at CHI 2020

LERSSE paper “Amazon vs. My Brother: How Users of Shared Smart Speakers Perceive and Cope with Privacy Risks” (top 5% of submissions) has received an Honourable Mention award at CHI 2020.