Kavli Frontiers of Science Talk (Video)

The Israeli-American Symposium by the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences was an amazing experience. For three straight days, you could hear amazing lectures by young scientists from all possible fields of exact sciences. You

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Kavli Frontiers of Science Talk (Video)

The Israeli-American Symposium by the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and U.S. National Academy of Sciences was an amazing experience. For three straight days, you could hear amazing lectures by young scientists from all possible fields of exact sciences. You

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Hosting Elaine M. Huang – From Tech-Smart to People-Smart: Designing for User Needs in Smart Homes

On Monday, November 11th, 11:00-12:00, the group will be hosting a talk by Elaine M. Huang, a professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. The talk will be at Wolfson Building for Mechanical Engineering,

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Hosting Elaine M. Huang – From Tech-Smart to People-Smart: Designing for User Needs in Smart Homes

On Monday, November 11th, 11:00-12:00, the group will be hosting a talk by Elaine M. Huang, a professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. The talk will be at Wolfson Building for Mechanical Engineering,

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Hacking at the Lab

Oranges, cups and a Raspberry Pi, all used to project a demo of a mobile phone application.

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Hacking at the Lab

Oranges, cups and a Raspberry Pi, all used to project a demo of a mobile phone application.

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The cost of things: couple of interesting studies

What are the true cost of annoying ads? Or the trust cost of free mobile applications? Two very different studies looked at those questions. This paper, accepted to WWW, used an interesting methodology to vouch the impact of ad annoyance.

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The cost of things: couple of interesting studies

What are the true cost of annoying ads? Or the trust cost of free mobile applications? Two very different studies looked at those questions. This paper, accepted to WWW, used an interesting methodology to vouch the impact of ad annoyance.

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XKCD covers all possible opinions on Internet privacy.

Are all characters covered? Was Westin right all the way?

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XKCD covers all possible opinions on Internet privacy.

Are all characters covered? Was Westin right all the way?

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About Quitting

About quitting social media. A New Yorker Article describes a film, called ‘Noah‘, which premièred at the Toronto Film Festival early this week. The entire story plays out on the computer screen of the protagonist, a high-school senior named Noah. Please notice,

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About Quitting

About quitting social media. A New Yorker Article describes a film, called ‘Noah‘, which premièred at the Toronto Film Festival early this week. The entire story plays out on the computer screen of the protagonist, a high-school senior named Noah. Please notice,

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Ubicomp presentation uploaded: Locality and Privacy in People-Nearby Applications

Our Ubicomp presentation is now online! As a quick reminder, it presents our paper on privacy and locality in applications for people-matching, qualitatively analyzing how users manage their privacy and security in applications that are currently used mainly for dating,

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Ubicomp presentation uploaded: Locality and Privacy in People-Nearby Applications

Our Ubicomp presentation is now online! As a quick reminder, it presents our paper on privacy and locality in applications for people-matching, qualitatively analyzing how users manage their privacy and security in applications that are currently used mainly for dating,

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