About the Lab

At the IWiT Lab, we work in the fields of human-computer interaction and computational analysis of human behavior, and apply our knowledge to tough questions in usable security…

The Lab at the Industrial Engineering Graduate Research Seminar

We recently held the graduate research seminar at the Tel Aviv University Department of Industrial Engineering. Our own Danielle Movsowitz Davidow had organized the event, and Noam Sheena was…

Data Subsidization for AI Training and Global Data Protection Inequalities

Noa Mor and Eran Toch had wrote a short article, featured on the Digital Life Initiative (Cornell Tech) website (here is the PDF Version). It discusses the growing data protection…

Interview at Channel 12 News about AI and the War in Gaza

Eran was interviewed at Channel 12 News (Israel’s leading TV channel) by Yaron Avraham and Einav Galilli about AI and the war in Gaza and the challenges in…

Coverage in Haaretz about our Account Deletion Paper

Our research was recently featured in Haaretz, discussing our paper Cleaning house or quiet quitting? Large-scale analysis of account deletion behaviour on Tumblr into why people delete their social media…

Maayan Interviewed at The Post-Human Condition Podcast

Maayan Cohen speaks with Carmel Vaisman from the fascinating podcast The Post-Human Condition, sharing insights from several studies she led in our lab as a postdoc. These studies focus…

Interview in Haaretz about simulated study participation

Eran was interviewed in Haaretz to talk about a new study in which LLMs were simulating social science study participants. The interview also mentioned our own study in…

Israel Ministry of Health and Patient Privacy

A new regulation from the Israel Ministry of Health aims to record patients in intensive care units on video and audio without their consent for “learning and quality…