New paper accepted for publication: Nudging Users towards Online Safety using Gamified Environments

We are happy to announce that a new paper was accepted for publication: Nudging Users towards Online Safety using Gamified Environments. The paper is written by Yelena Petrykina,  Hadas Schwartz-Chassidim, and Eran Toch, and discusses a user study in which

New paper accepted for publication — User-Centered Privacy-by-Design: Evaluating the Appropriateness of Design Prototypes

We are happy to announce a new paper accepted for publication at the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, written by Oshrat Ayalon and Eran Toch. The paper’s pre-print is available here.  Here is the abstract: Abstract Privacy-by-Design (PbD) suggests designing

Interview about Google’s cookie policy change at the Israeli Public Broadcast Network

Eran was interviewed in the “Three Who Know” science program at the Israel Public Broadcast Network — Kann. The interview covered the recent change in Google’s cookie policy, and what it means for privacy. Click here to listen, 7/3/2021, at

New course from the Lab: Human-AI Interaction

Eran will be teaching a new course this semester, open to graduate students in Tel Aviv University: Human-AI Interaction. The course is open to graduate students in Tel Aviv University and requires programming and some knowledge in Machine Learning. This

An interview about the new Israeli law that allows transferring data about vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens

Eran was interviewed by Omer Kabir at Calcliat about the challenges of the new Israeli law that allows transferring data about vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens to municipalities and to the Ministry of Education.

New paper: Detecting interruption events using EEG

We are excited to announce that a new study by Frank Bolton, Neta Maimon, Dov Te’eni and Eran Toch was accepted to IEEE LifeTech 2021. The paper titled “Detecting interruption events using EEG” adds new insight to understanding the effect

Interview by DR, the Danish Broadcast Corporation

Eran was interviewed today by DR, the Danish Broadcast Corporation (DR Nyheder) about #privacy and the #Pfizer vaccine.