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

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

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

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

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

Privacy and social intelligibility

What would happen if your phone would explain your friends why you cannot answer their call? Recently, I (Eran) had presented this issue ‘Privacy and social intelligibility’ in the Pervasive Intelligibility workshop at Pervasive 2012. The talk is based on a

Israeli Media Coverage for Smart-Spaces

Lots of public interest in our Smart-Spaces study (with co-pi Dr. Tali Hatuka.) Its always great to see the public excited about what we do, even though the titles and quotes are somewhat over the top, at least compared to what we are used