Heather Richter Lipford

Leveraging Community for Security and Privacy

We are exploring how to utilize decisions and oversight from a community of users to aid in security and privacy decision making. This will involve more directly supporting social processes, such as social influence and social navigation, in security and privacy interface mechanisms.

Publications

Heather Richter Lipford and Mary Ellen Zurko. Someone To Watch Over Me. In the Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2012), September 2012.
Jason Watson, Andrew Besmer, and Heather Richter Lipford. Mapping User Preference to Privacy Default Settings. ACM Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, December 2015. 22(6), pp 1-20.
Andrew Besmer, Jason Watson, and Heather Richter Lipford. The Impact of Social Navigation on Privacy Policy Configuration. In the Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2010), July 2010.