2025

• Analyzing the AI Nudification Application Ecosystem
  Authors: Cassidy Gibson, Daniel Olszewski, Natalie Grace Brigham, Anna Crowder, Kevin Butler, Patrick Traynor, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  Published: Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (Security’25), Seattle, WA, USA, August 2025. (bibtex)
• To Reveal or Conceal: Privacy and Marginalization in Avatars
  Authors: Mattea Sim, Basia Radka, Emi Yoshikawa, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Hugenberg, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  Published: Proceedings of the 25th Privacy Enhancing Security Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025), Washington, DC, USA, July 2025.
• A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset
  Authors:Rachel Hong, Jevan Hutson, William Agnew, Imaad Huda, Tadayoshi Kohno and Jaime Morgenstern.
  Published: June 2025.
• Understanding experiences with compulsory immigration surveillance in the U.S.
  Authors: Kentrell Owens, Yael Eiger, Basia Radka, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025) June 2025.
• Characterizing the Default Persona During Design: Mental Representations of Technology Users are Gendered
  Authors: Mattea Sim, Basia Radka, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Hugenberg.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025) June 2025.
• Extending the Heilmeier catechism to evaluate security & privacy systems: Who is left out?
  Authors: Kevin Butler, Kurt Hugenberg, Eakta Jain, Apu Kapadia, Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa Redmiles, Franziska Roesner, Mattea Sim, Patrick Traynor, and Hanna Barakat.
  Published: IEEE Security and Privacy, May/June 2025.
• Data to Infinity and Beyond: Examining Data Sharing and Usage Practices in the Computer Security Community
  Authors: Anna Crowder, Allison Lu, Kevin Childs, Carson Stillman, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin Butler.
  Published: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2025.
• “You Have to Ignore the Dangers”: User Perceptions of the Security and Privacy Benefits of WhatsApp Mods
  Authors: Collins W. Munyendo, Kentrell Owens, Faith Strong, Shaoqi Wang, Adam J. Aviv, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2025.
• Coach, Data Analyst, and Protector: Exploring Data Practices of Collegiate Sports Coaching Staff
  Authors: Mollie Brewer, Kevin Childs, Spencer Thomas, Celeste Wilkins, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Jennifer A. Nichols, Kevin Butler, Garrett F. Beatty, and Daniel P. Ferris.
  Published: Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), Yokohama, Japan, April 2025. (bibtex)
• Teachers’ Perspectives on Student Generation of Synthetic Nonconsensual Explicit Imagery
  Authors: Miranda Wei, Christina Yeung, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), Yokohama, Japan, April 2025. (bibtex)
• User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality
  Authors:Kaiming Cheng, Mattea Sim, Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: 15th Usable Security and Privacy Symposium (USEC) February 2025.
• Characterizing the Impact of Audio Deepfakes in the Presence of Cochlear Implant Simulated Audio
  Authors: Magdalena Pasternak, Kevin Warren, Daniel Olszewski, Susan Nittrouer, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin Butler.
  Published: Proceedings of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 2025. (bibtex)

2024

• “Better Be Computer or I’m Dumb”: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Humans as Audio Deepfake Detectors
  Authors: Kevin Warren, Tyler Tucker, Anna Crowder, Daniel Olszewski, Allison Lu, Caroline Fedele, Magdalena Pasternak, Seth Layton, Kevin Butler, Carrie Gates and Patrick Traynor.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security December 2024.
• I Can Show You the World (of Censorship): Extracting Insights from Censorship Measurement Data Using Statistical Techniques
  Authors: Anna Crowder, Daniel Olszewski, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin Butler.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2024), Honolulu, HI, USA, December 2024. (bibtex)
• Safer Algorithmically-Mediated Offline Introductions: Harms and Protective Behaviors
  Authors: Veronica A. Rivera, Daricia Wilkinson, Aurelia Augusta, Sophie Li, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Angelika Strohmayer.
  Published: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024), San Jose, Costa Rica, November 2024.
• Who’s in and who’s out? A case study of multimodal CLIP-filtering in DataComp
  Authors: Rachel Hong, William Agnew, Tadayoshi Kohno and Jaime Morgenstern.
  Published: Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization October 2024.
• Face the Facts: Using Face Averaging to Visualize Gender-by-Race Bias in Facial Analysis Algorithms
  Authors: Kentrell Owens, Erin Freiburger, Ryan Hutchings, Mattea Sim, Kurt Hugenberg, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  Published: Proceedings of the 7th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2024), October 2024.
• I Had Sort of a Sense That I Was Always Being Watched…Since I Was”: Examining Interpersonal Discomfort From Continuous Location-Sharing Applications
  Authors: Kevin Childs, Cassidy Gibson, Anna Crowder, Kevin Warren, Carson Stillman, Elissa M. Redmiles, Eakta Jain, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin Butler.
  Published: In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24), Salt Lake City, UT, USA. October 2024.
• Toward Safer Intimate Futures: Recommendations for Tech Platforms to Reduce Image Based Sexual Abuse
  Authors: Lucy Qin, Vaughn Hamilton, Sharon Wang, Yigit Aydinalp, Marin Scarlett, and Elissa M. Redmiles.
  Published: In Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 55-72. August 2024. (bibtex)
• “‘But they have overlooked a few things in Afghanistan:’ An Analysis of the Integration of Biometric Voter Verification in the 2019 Afghan Presidential Elections
  Authors: Kabir Panahi, Shawn Robertson, Yasemin Acar, Alexandru G. Bardas, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Lucy Simko.
  Published: Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2024.
• “I feel physically safe but not politically safe”: Understanding the Digital Threats and Safety Practices of OnlyFans Creators
  Authors: Ananta Soneji, Vaughn Hamilton, Adam Doupé, Allison McDonald, and Elissa M. Redmiles.
  Published: Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2024.
• “Did They F***ing Consent to That?”: Safer Digital Intimacy via Proactive Protection Against Image-Based Sexual Abuse
  Authors: Lucy Qin, Vaughn Hamilton, Sharon Wang, Yigit Aydinalp, Marin Scarlett, and Elissa M. Redmiles.
  Published: In Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2024.
• SoK (or SoLK?): On the Quantitative Study of Sociodemographic Factors and Computer Security Behaviors
  Authors: Miranda Wei, Jaron Mink, Yael Eiger and Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: In Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2024.
• “Violation of my body:” Perceptions of AI-generated non-consensual (intimate) imagery
  Authors: Natalie Grace Brigham, Miranda Wei, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Elissa M. Redmiles.
  Published: In Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2024.

•  “Studying manipulation and persuasiveness of Smart Voice Assistants“
  Authors: Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Ran Huang, Donald S. Williamson, Minjeong Kim, and Apu Kapadia.
  Published: Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2024), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, July 2024. (bibtex)

• It’s Trying Too Hard To Look Real: Deepfake Moderation Mistakes and Identity-Based Bias.
  Authors: Jaron Mink, Miranda Wei, Collins W. Munyendo, Kurt Hugenberg, Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Gang Wang.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2024. (bibtex)

• Sharenting on TikTok: Exploring Parental Sharing Behaviors and the Discourse Around Children’s Online Privacy
  Authors: Sophie Stephenson, Christopher Nathaniel Page, Miranda Wei, Apu Kapadia, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2024. (bibtex)

• Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience
  Authors: Ethan Wilson, Azim Ibragimov, Michael J. Proulx, Sai Deep Tetali, Kevin Butler, and Eakta Jain.
  Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. March 2024.
• Safer Digital Intimacy for Sex Workers and Beyond: A Technical Research Agenda
  Authors: Vaughn Hamilton, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Allison McDonald, and Elissa M. Redmiles.  
  Published: IEEE S&P Magazine, March/April 2024. (bibtex)

2023

• Gender Biases in Tone Analysis: A Case Study of a Commercial Wearable.
  Authors: Christina Yeung, Umar Iqbal, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, 1-12. October 2023.
• A scalable inclusive security intervention to center marginalized & vulnerable populations in Security & Privacy design.
  Authors: Mattea Sims, Kurt Hugenberg, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2023 New Security Paradigms Workshop, 102-115. September 2023.
• Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversations.
  Authors: Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar, and Wulf Loh.
  Published: Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Security’23), Anaheim, CA, USA, August 2023. Distinguished Paper Award.
• Exploring User Reactions and Mental Models Towards Perceptual Manipulation Attacks in Mixed Reality.
  Authors: Kaiming Cheng, Jeffery F. Tian, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Security’23), Anaheim, CA, USA, August 2023.

• Privacy-preserving datasets of eye-tracking samples with applications in XR
  Authors: Brendan David-John, Diane Hosfelt, Kevin Butler, and Eakta Jain.
  Published: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, May 2023. Best paper nominee at IEEE VR 2023.

• How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance.
  Authors: Jackson Stokes, Tal August, Robert Marver, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Katharina Reinecke.
  Published: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
• Eliciting Security & Privacy-Informed Sharing Techniques for Multi-User Augmented Reality.
  Authors: Shwetha Rajaram, Chen Chen, Franziska Roesner, and Michael Nebeling.
  Published: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hamburg, Germany, April 2023
• Give me some room please! Personal space bubbles for safety and performance.
  Authors: Karina LaRubbio, Ethan Wilson, Sanjeev Koppal, Sophie Jörg, and Eakta Jain.
  Published: IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 897-898. March 2023.
• Looking Backwards (and Forwards): NSF Secure and Trustworthy Computing 20-Year Retrospective Panel Transcription.
  Authors: Carl Landwehr, Michael K. Reiter, Laurie Williams, Gene Tsudik, Trent. Jaeger, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Apu Kapadia.
  Published: IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, March/April 2023.
• “Modeling User Characteristics Associated with Interdependent Privacy Perceptions on Social Media,“
  Authors: Mary Jean Amon, Aaron Necaise, Nika Kartvelishvili, Aneka Williams, Yan Solihin, and Apu Kapadia.
  Published: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), January 2023. (bibtex)(acm)
• Online Advertising in Ukraine and Russia During the 2022 Russian Invasion.
  Authors: Christina Yeung, Umar Iqbal, Yekaterina Tsipenyuk O’Neil, Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: The Web Conference (WebConf), May 2023.
• Power in Computer Security and Privacy: A Critical Lens.
  Authors: E.M. Redmiles, Mia M. Bennett, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  Published: IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, March/April 2023. (bibtex)
• Skilled or Gullible? Gender Stereotypes Related to Computer Security and Privacy.
  Authors: Miranda Wei, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  Published: 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2023.
• “Threat modeling and consideration of M&V populations”
  Authors: Mattea Sim, Kurt Hugenberg, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: NSPW, December 2023.

• The Writing on the Wall and 3D Digital Twins: Personal Information in (not so) Private Real Estate.
  Authors: Rachel McAmis and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  Published: USENIX Security Symposium, August 2023.

• “There’s so much responsibility on users right now:” Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment.
  Authors: Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and Kurt Thomas.
  Published: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2023.

• Understanding People’s Concerns and Attitudes Toward Smart Cities.
  Authors: Pardis Emami-Naeini, Jospeh Breda, Wei Dai, Tadayoshi Kohno, Kim Laine, Shwetak Patel, and Franziska Roesner.
  Published: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2023.