Research

New paper accepted to Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

We are happy to announce that a new paper was just accepted to the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems: Evaluating Package Delivery Crowdsourcing using Location Traces in Different Population Densities by Ayelet Arditi and Eran Toch. Here is a short (before

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New paper accepted to Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

We are happy to announce that a new paper was just accepted to the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems: Evaluating Package Delivery Crowdsourcing using Location Traces in Different Population Densities by Ayelet Arditi and Eran Toch. Here is a short (before

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Demoing Meerkat at CHI 2022

We were happy to unveil Meerket, our social support system for older adults, at the demo session at CHI2022. With the brass band right beside us, it had a very festive feeling. The demo submission is now available as a

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Demoing Meerkat at CHI 2022

We were happy to unveil Meerket, our social support system for older adults, at the demo session at CHI2022. With the brass band right beside us, it had a very festive feeling. The demo submission is now available as a

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New accepted publication at the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

We are happy that Maya Benarous’ paper, “Synthesis of Longitudinal Human Location Sequences: Balancing Utility and Privacy“, was recently accepted to the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). The paper, written with Maya’s two co-advisors, Eran Toch and Irad Ben

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New accepted publication at the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

We are happy that Maya Benarous’ paper, “Synthesis of Longitudinal Human Location Sequences: Balancing Utility and Privacy“, was recently accepted to the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). The paper, written with Maya’s two co-advisors, Eran Toch and Irad Ben

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New published paper: Proactive Support for Older Adults

We are happy to inform the readers that we have a new paper published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies: Toward Proactive Support for Older Adults: Predicting the Right Moment for Providing Mobile Safety Help.

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New published paper: Proactive Support for Older Adults

We are happy to inform the readers that we have a new paper published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies: Toward Proactive Support for Older Adults: Predicting the Right Moment for Providing Mobile Safety Help.

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New preprint: How mass surveillance can crowd out installations of COVID-19 contact tracing apps

What was the effect of Israel’s decision to use mass surveillance of cellular phones for COVID-19 contact tracing? Oshrat Ayalon and I have uploaded a new manuscript to arxiv that analyzes the relationship to the installation of the more accurate

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New preprint: How mass surveillance can crowd out installations of COVID-19 contact tracing apps

What was the effect of Israel’s decision to use mass surveillance of cellular phones for COVID-19 contact tracing? Oshrat Ayalon and I have uploaded a new manuscript to arxiv that analyzes the relationship to the installation of the more accurate

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Published: Nudging users towards online safety using gamified environments

The journal Computers and Security had published our paper, “Nudging Users towards Online Safety using Gamified Environments”.  The paper is written by Yelena Petrykina,  Hadas Schwartz-Chassidim, and Eran Toch, and can be found here. Hackers increasingly target human vulnerabilities, with

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Published: Nudging users towards online safety using gamified environments

The journal Computers and Security had published our paper, “Nudging Users towards Online Safety using Gamified Environments”.  The paper is written by Yelena Petrykina,  Hadas Schwartz-Chassidim, and Eran Toch, and can be found here. Hackers increasingly target human vulnerabilities, with

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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

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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

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