publications
2026
Why Johnny Can’t Use Agents: Industry Aspirations vs. User Realities with AI Agents
Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure?
Supporting Informed Self-Disclosure: Design Recommendations for Presenting AI-Estimates of Privacy Risks to Users
Privy: Envisioning and Mitigating Privacy Risks for Consumer-facing AI Product Concepts
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention (2026)
2025
Transformational Provocations for Usable Privacy and Security: Designing Beyond Compliance and Expert Norms
Probabilistic Reasoning with LLMs for Privacy Risk Estimation
Imago Obscura: An Image Privacy AI Co-pilot to Enable Identification and Mitigation of Risks
Sound Check: Auditing Recent Audio Dataset Practices
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Agent Decisions Reveal Implicit Biases in Language Models
Of Secrets and Seedphrases: Conceptual Misunderstandings and Security Challenges for Seed Phrase Management among Cryptocurrency Users
On-demand RFID: Improving Privacy, Security, and User Trust in RFID Activation through Physically-Intuitive Design
Purpose Mode: Reducing Distraction Through Toggling Attention Capture Damaging Patterns on Social Media Websites
Modeling End-User Affective Discomfort With Mobile App Permissions Across Physical Contexts
Measuring, Modeling, and Helping People Account for Privacy Risks in Online Self-Disclosures with AI
Design(ing) Fictions for Collective Civic Reporting of Privacy Harms
2024
Granular Privacy Control for Geolocation with Vision Language Models
Reducing Privacy Risks in Online Self-Disclosures with Language Models
A Systematic Review of Biometric Monitoring in the Workplace: Analyzing Socio-technical Harms in Development, Deployment and Use
"It's a Fair Game", or Is It? Examining How Users Navigate Disclosure Risks and Benefits When Using LLM-Based Conversational Agents
“Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket”: How Cryptocurrency Users Choose and Secure Their Wallets
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention (2024)
Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks
🏆 Best Paper (2024)
The Subversive AI Acceptance Scale (SAIA-8): A Scale to Measure User Acceptance of AI-Generated, Privacy-Enhancing Image Modifications
I Don’t Know If We’re Doing Good. I Don’t Know If We’re Doing Bad”: Investigating How Practitioners Scope, Motivate, and Conduct Privacy Work When Developing AI Products
🏆 Distinguished Paper (2024)
2023
Privacy in the Age of AI: What's changed and what should we do about it?
Powering for Privacy: Improving User Trust in Smart Speaker Microphones with Intentional Powering and Perceptible Assurance
Iterative Design of An Accessible CryptoWallet for Blind Users
GuardLens: Supporting Safer Online Browsing for People with Visual Impairments
ImageAlly: A Human-AI Hybrid Approach to Support Blind People in Detecting and Redacting Private Image Content
The Slow Violence of Surveillance Capitalism: How Online Behavioral Advertising Harms People
When and Why Do People Want Ad Targeting Explanations? Evidence from a Four-Week, Mixed-Methods Field Study
2022
The Security and Privacy Acceptance Framework (SPAF): A review of why users accept or reject cybersecurity and privacy best practices
“A Reasonable Thing to Ask For”: Towards a Unified Voice in Privacy Collective Action
To Self-Persuade or be Persuaded: Examining Interventions for Users’ Privacy Setting Selection
Image DePO: Towards Gradual Decentralization of Online Social Networks using Decentralized Privacy Overlays
Smart Webcam Cover: Exploring the Design of an Intelligent Webcam Cover to Improve Usability and Trust
"How Do You Not Lose Friends?": Synthesizing a Design Space of Social Controls for Securing Shared Digital Resources Via Participatory Design Jams
2021
Bit Whisperer: Enabling Ad-hoc, Short-range, Walk-Up-and-Share Data Transmissions via Surface-restricted Acoustics
Privacy for the People? Exploring Collective Action as a Mechanism to Shift Power to Consumers in End-User Privacy
Exploring the Utility Versus Intrusiveness of Dynamic Audience Selection on Facebook
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention (2021)
WebAlly: Making Visual Task-based CAPTCHAs Transferable for People with Visual Impairments
Spidey Sense: Designing Wrist-Mounted Affective Haptics for Communicating Cybersecurity Warnings
🏆 GVU Fall Demo Day People's Choice Award—First Place (2019)
Individually Vulnerable, Collectively Safe: The Security and Privacy Practices of Households with Older Adults
2020
Subversive AI: Resisting automated algorithmic surveillance with human-centered adversarial machine learning
Tensions between Access and Control in Makerspaces
Blind and Human: Exploring More Usable Audio CAPTCHA Designs
🏆 Distinguished Paper (2020)
“We Hold Each Other Accountable”: Unpacking How Social Groups Approach Cybersecurity and Privacy Together
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention (2020)
2019
The Memory Palace: Exploring Visual-Spatial Paths for Strong, Memorable, Infrequent Authentication
A Typology of Perceived Triggers for End-User Security and Privacy Behaviors
2018
Breaking! A Typology of Security and Privacy News and How It's Shared
2017
Evolving the Ecosystem of Personal Behavioral Data
Thumprint: Socially-Inclusive Local Group Authentication Through Shared Secret Knocks
🏆 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2014) 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention (2017)
2016
Social Cybersecurity: Understanding and Leveraging Social Influence to Increase Security Sensitivity
Expert and Non-Expert Attitudes towards (Secure) Instant Messaging
Epistenet: Facilitating Programmatic Access & Processing of Semantically Related Mobile Personal Data
A Market in Your Social Network: The Effects of Extrinsic Rewards on Friendsourcing and Relationships
🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention (2016)
Testing Computer-Aided Mnemonics and Feedback for Fast Memorization of High-Value Secrets
2015
Social Cybersecurity: Applying Social Psychology to Cybersecurity
Examining Game World Topology Personalization
The Role of Social Influence In Security Feature Adoption
2014
Increasing Security Sensitivity With Social Proof: A Large-Scale Experimental Confirmation
🏆 NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Honorable Mention (2015)
The Effect of Social Influence on Security Sensitivity
2013
Revival Actions in a Shooter Game
CASA: Context-Aware Scalable Authentication
Exploring Capturable Everyday Memory for Autobiographical Authentication
🏆 Best Paper (2013)
The Post That Wasn't: Examining Self-Censorship on Facebook
2011
Towards Supporting Storytellers with Procedurally Generated Game Worlds
🏆 Most Innovative Video Nomination Award (AAAI Video Competition) (2011)