publications

2026

Supporting Informed Self-Disclosure: Design Recommendations for Presenting AI-Estimates of Privacy Risks to Users

2025

Transformational Provocations for Usable Privacy and Security: Designing Beyond Compliance and Expert Norms
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

2024

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)
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

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
"How Do You Not Lose Friends?": Synthesizing a Design Space of Social Controls for Securing Shared Digital Resources Via Participatory Design Jams

2021

Privacy for the People? Exploring Collective Action as a Mechanism to Shift Power to Consumers in End-User Privacy
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
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

2017

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
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

2014

Increasing Security Sensitivity With Social Proof: A Large-Scale Experimental Confirmation
🏆 NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Honorable Mention (2015)

2013

Exploring Capturable Everyday Memory for Autobiographical Authentication
🏆 Best Paper (2013)

2011

ACCessory: Keystroke Inference using Accelerometers on Smartphones
Towards Supporting Storytellers with Procedurally Generated Game Worlds
🏆 Most Innovative Video Nomination Award (AAAI Video Competition) (2011)