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Our new Cyber Grant Project

A new and exciting project is starting in our group: “User-Oriented Security: A multidisciplinary approach.” The project is a collaboration with three other faculty members, Joachim Meyer, Tal Raviv and Irad Ben-Gal, and is sponsored by a 860,000 NIS ($238,000) grant

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Our new Cyber Grant Project

A new and exciting project is starting in our group: “User-Oriented Security: A multidisciplinary approach.” The project is a collaboration with three other faculty members, Joachim Meyer, Tal Raviv and Irad Ben-Gal, and is sponsored by a 860,000 NIS ($238,000) grant

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Oshrat’s Thesis

Just returned from the Masters thesis defense of the group’s first graduate student, Oshrat Rave Ayalon. She passed with flying colors. Her thesis is about: “Retrospective Privacy: Managing Longitudinal Privacy in Online Social Networks”, basically asking what would someone feel

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Oshrat’s Thesis

Just returned from the Masters thesis defense of the group’s first graduate student, Oshrat Rave Ayalon. She passed with flying colors. Her thesis is about: “Retrospective Privacy: Managing Longitudinal Privacy in Online Social Networks”, basically asking what would someone feel

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Talking at the iCareNet Winter School at Klosters, Switzerland

Hi, its Eran. i just came back from the iCareNet winter school, a gathering of the Ph.D. students in iCareNet, the EU scientific project of pervasive health. It was a fascinating event, with long and interesting discussions with some great

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Talking at the iCareNet Winter School at Klosters, Switzerland

Hi, its Eran. i just came back from the iCareNet winter school, a gathering of the Ph.D. students in iCareNet, the EU scientific project of pervasive health. It was a fascinating event, with long and interesting discussions with some great

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New Journal Paper: Crowdsourcing Privacy Preferences

How can crowdsourcing help users manage their privacy setting in location-based applications? Our new paper answers this question with new algorithms and users studies. The paper, “Crowdsourcing privacy preferences in context-aware applications” is about to be published in Springer’s Personal

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New Journal Paper: Crowdsourcing Privacy Preferences

How can crowdsourcing help users manage their privacy setting in location-based applications? Our new paper answers this question with new algorithms and users studies. The paper, “Crowdsourcing privacy preferences in context-aware applications” is about to be published in Springer’s Personal

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About IsraHCI: The First Israeli Human-Computer Interaction Research Conference

Human-computer interaction in Israel is going through a quiet revolution: the Israeli software industry and research institutions are turning their focus to user-facing technologies and challenges, requiring innovation and education. A great sign of this revolution is the success of

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About IsraHCI: The First Israeli Human-Computer Interaction Research Conference

Human-computer interaction in Israel is going through a quiet revolution: the Israeli software industry and research institutions are turning their focus to user-facing technologies and challenges, requiring innovation and education. A great sign of this revolution is the success of

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A short piece about our work in the National Geographic Hebrew Edition

The National Geographic Hebrew Edition published a short article about the Smart-Spaces study: http://www.nationalgeographic.co.il/online/20/ART2/411/362.html

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A short piece about our work in the National Geographic Hebrew Edition

The National Geographic Hebrew Edition published a short article about the Smart-Spaces study: http://www.nationalgeographic.co.il/online/20/ART2/411/362.html

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What can ‘People-Nearby’ applications teach us?

`People-nearby’ applications, such as Highlight, Grindr and Badoo, are used by millions of users to meet new people online. Eran is presenting an position paper that looks at these applications as a test-case for new location-based technologies. The position paper

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What can ‘People-Nearby’ applications teach us?

`People-nearby’ applications, such as Highlight, Grindr and Badoo, are used by millions of users to meet new people online. Eran is presenting an position paper that looks at these applications as a test-case for new location-based technologies. The position paper

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