I am happy to announce that two new papers were recently published at the  The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). The two papers are the fruits of our project  “Safety and privacy of smart city mobile applications” with Shahar Maoz and Eran Tromer from Tel Aviv University, and David Lo and Debin Gao from Singapore Management University (SMU). Our part in this project is to think about how vulnerable populations, mainly older adults (people who are 65 years old or older), can be protected.

Here are some details about the two papers:

The first paper, headed by group member Tamir Mendel describes a mixed method study, qualitatively analyzing the helpers’ assistance stories and quantitatively estimating the factors that affect helpers’ willingness to offer assistance to older relatives regarding mobile security and privacy problems.

Tamir Mendel and Eran Toch, My Mom was Getting this Popup: Understanding Motivations and Processes in Helping Older Relatives with Mobile Security and Privacy, ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies – IMWUT, 2019.  Info. Bibtex.  Download.

 

The second paper, headed by the SMU group, details several experiments withAppMoD,a community-based tool that allows delegation of security and privacy decisions a trusted social connection, such as a family member or a close friend.

Zhiyuan Wan, Lingfeng Bao, Debin Gao, Eran Toch, Xin Xia, Tamir Mendel, and David Lo, AppMoD: Helping Older Adults Manage Mobile Security with Online Social Help. ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies – IMWUT, 2019.  Info. Bibtex.  Download.