Hosting NYU’s Professor Oded Nov

We are happy to host a lecture by Prof. Oded Nov from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. Oded will spend the 2021 semester as a research fellow of the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies. His talk takes

Lecture at Ben Gurion University

Eran’s talk at the seminar talk today at Ben Gurion University Department of Industrial Engineering & Management is about Massive Analysis of Profile Deletion on Social Media (with Ruth Sarig and Ran Wolff).     Abstract Understanding why users delete their profiles

CIO Magazine Interview

Eran was recently interviewed to CIO Magazine. Here is a short excerpt: Israeli startups have hatched viral apps like Waze, Moovit, and Viber. But the government’s effort to win public adoption for its Covid-19 contact tracing app has been a

CSCW Presentation: Can you Turn it Off? The Spatial and Social Context of Mobile Disturbance

Our paper, “Can you Turn it Off? The Spatial and Social Context of Mobile Disturbance” was presented at the  #CSCW2020 conference, with the video available online. The paper, by Eran Toch, Hadas Chassidim and Tali Hatuka, was presented at the Conversation and Communication

Media appearance at Kan, the Israeli Broadcast Corporation

Eran was interview yesterday at Kan, the Israeli Broadcast Corporation to ask: Should we be concerned with the new Amazon Halo? In Hebrew.    

Yet another radio interview about our COVID-19 Contact Tracing study

What will be the effect of cellular tracking by Israel’s Secret Service for carrying our COVID-19 contact tracing? Eran was interviewed by the GLZ radio program, Bottom Line — Digital, about the lab’s recent large-scale survey. Listen to the July

Radio interview with Eran at the Public Broadcast Network

Eran was interviewed in the “Three who know” science program at the Israel Public Broadcast Network — Kann. The interview covered an opinion piece in favor of retracting a Harrisburg University study that claimed to identify “criminals” based on their