The Digital City: Critical Dimensions in Implementing the Smart City.

We have posted a new tech report on SSRN: “The Digital City: Critical Dimensions in Implementing the Smart City.” The report is relevant to ppl doing #SmartCity work: urban planning, information security, privacy and equality. With Michael Birnhack, Tali Hatuka,

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.    

New published paper: Crowd logistics: Understanding auction-based pricing and couriers’ strategies in crowdsourcing package delivery

How do couriers make decisions in auction-based package delivery service? In this new paper published in the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Amit Rechavi and Eran Toch analyze couriers’ strategies and try to understand how and in which cases do they compete