collaborators

6 papers

cs.HC2026

Learning Password Best Practices Through In-Task Instruction

Qian Ma, Yingfan Zhou, Shubhang Kaushik +6

Users often make security- and privacy-relevant decisions without a clear understanding of the rules that govern safe behavior. We introduce pedagogical friction, a design approach…

cs.HC2026

Privacy Cards for Surfacing Mental Models and Exploring Privacy Concerns: A Case Study of Voice-First Ambient Interfaces with Older Adults

Andrea Cuadra, Samar Sabie, Yan Shvartzshnaider +1

We investigate the ethical and privacy implications of voice-first ambient interfaces (VFAIs) for aging in place through an in-depth engagement with five older adults. Our particip…

cs.LG2025

Privacy Bias in Language Models: A Contextual Integrity-based Auditing Metric

Yan Shvartzshnaider, Vasisht Duddu

As large language models (LLMs) are integrated into sociotechnical systems, it is crucial to examine the privacy biases they exhibit. We define privacy bias as the appropriateness…

cs.CR2025

Measuring NIST Authentication Standards Compliance by Higher Education Institutions

Noah Apthorpe, Boen Beavers, Yan Shvartzshnaider +1

Technical standards are a longstanding method of communicating best practice recommendations based on expert consensus. Cybersecurity standards are particularly important for infor…

cs.CY2025

Position: Contextual Integrity is Inadequately Applied to Language Models

Yan Shvartzshnaider, Vasisht Duddu

Machine learning community is discovering Contextual Integrity (CI) as a useful framework to assess the privacy implications of large language models (LLMs). This is an encouraging…

cs.HC2025

Trust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social Media

Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara, Yan Shvartzshnaider

Decentralized social media protocols enable users in independent, user-hosted servers (i.e., instances) to interact with each other while they self-govern. This community-based mod…