July, 2019
Still on our last paper, the Daily Show by Trevor Noah featured a sketch on the results of our study (See press).
June, 2019
Our CHI 2019 paper gathered intense media exposure (See Press).
May, 2019
Our paper "Vulnerability & Blame: Making Sense of Unauthorized Access to Smartphones" was presented at CHI 2019, the topmost conference in HCI.
December, 2018
Ana Pires joined the project as a PostDoc Researcher.
October, 2018
Diogo Marques presented our research and preliminary studies at the OpenLab, Newcastle University.
August, 2018
Paper on the effectiveness of Smartphone Locks in Preventing Intrusions by Socially-Close Adversaries presented at WAY'18 workshop at SOUPS, in Baltimore.
July, 2018
We were visited by Ivan Beschastnikh for a week. He offered a seminar and we collaborated on our unauthorized access research.
June, 2018
Project mIDR started.
Media attention to our Usable Privacy research
Our research was featured on “The Daily Show” by Trevor Noah on July 29th. A funny sketch with a skewed interpretation of our findings. Check our CHI 2019 paper to know more and see the sketch
Snooping through your partner’s phone? It might not end as badly as you think: study
Several media outlets featured our CHI 2019 paper on unauthorized access to smartphones. Check our Press page for several instances
An accessibility service for android that records every interaction with the device. It collects when, what type of action (e.g. click, long click) and where (i.e. application, interface element) the user interacts. Creating a representation of application and device workflows.