So proud of Oshrat Ayalon for zooming through her doctoral defense with flying colors. Oshrat is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, Germany, working at the Safety & Society group.

Oshrat’s Ph.D. dissertation is titled User-Centered Privacy-by-Design. Her work is turning towards creating theory and tools that would lead to User-Centered Privacy-by-Design methods in information systems development processes. The dissertation’s findings are based on three empirical studies: analyzing the drivers for privacy engineering practices, the impact of framing on privacy appropriateness, and evaluating a scale of user-centered privacy system design. These findings have led to several published papers, including:

User-Centered Privacy-by-Design: Evaluating the Appropriateness of Design Prototypes., Oshrat Ayalon and Eran Toch, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

Evaluating Users’ Perceptions about a System’s Privacy: Differentiating between Social and Institutional Aspects, Oshrat Ayalon and Eran Toch, SOUPS 2019. Usenix Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security.

Privacy by Designers: Software Developers’ Privacy Mindset, Irit Hadar, Tomer Hasson, Oshrat Ayalon, Eran Toch, Michael Birnhack, Sofia Sherman, and Arod Balissa, Empirical Software Engineering. 2017. 1-31.

How Developers Make Design Decisions about Users’ Privacy: The Place of Professional Communities and Organizational Climate, Oshrat Ayalon, Eran Toch, Irit Hadar, and Michael Birnhack, CSCW 2017 poster, Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing.

Crowdsourcing Privacy Design Critique: An Empirical Evaluation of Framing Effects, Oshrat Ayalon and Eran Toch, HICSS 2018. The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

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