Research Projects

Mamtaj Akter, Madiha Tabassum, Nazmus Sakib Miazi, Leena Alghamdi, Jess Kropczynski, Pamela J. Wisniewski, and Heather Lipford. 2023. Evaluating the Impact of Community Oversight for Managing Mobile Privacy and Security. In Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2023). USENIX Association, Anaheim, CA, 437–456.

Mamtaj Akter, Leena Alghamdi, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Richter Lipford, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. 2023. It Takes a Village: A Case for Including Extended Family Members in the Joint Oversight of Family-based Privacy and Security for Mobile Smartphones. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 194, 1–7.

Mamtaj Akter, Amy J. Godfrey, Jess Kropczynski, Heather R. Lipford, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. 2022. From Parental Control to Joint Family Oversight: Can Parents and Teens Manage Mobile Online Safety and Privacy as Equals? Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW1, Article 57 (April 2022), 28 pages. 

Mamtaj Akter, Leena Alghamdi, Dylan Gillespie, Nazmus Sakib Miazi, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. 2022. CO-oPS: A Mobile App for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'22 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 179–183. 

Jess Kropczynski, Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky, Mamtaj Akter, Amy J. Godfrey, Heather Lipford, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. 2021. Examining Collaborative Support for Privacy and Security in the Broader Context of Tech Caregiving. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 396 (October 2021), 23 pages. 

Mamtaj Akter, Kropczynski, J., Lipford, H., and Wisniewski, P., “Evaluating the Effects of Community Oversight for Mobile Privacy and Security between Caregivers and Caregivees”, Manuscript under review.

Mamtaj Akter, Kropczynski, J., Lipford, H., and Wisniewski, P., “Understanding Online and Offline Interactions for Building Community Collective Efficacy for Managing Digital Privacy and Security”, Manuscript in preparation.

Mamtaj Akter, Lipford, H., and Wisniewski, P., “Examining the Impact of Community Oversight for Mobile Privacy and Security on the Privacy Concern and Control Based on Caregiving Status”, Manuscript in preparation.

Leena Alghamdi, Mamtaj Akter, Jess Kropczynski, Pamela J. Wisniewski, and Heather Lipford. 2023. Co-designing Community-based Sharing of Smarthome Devices for the Purpose of Co-monitoring In-home Emergencies. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 426, 1–16. 

Leena Alghamdi, Mamtaj Akter, Cristobal Sepulveda Cardenas, Diego A. Cruces, Jason Wiese, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. 2022. Mi Casa es Su Casa (“MiSu”): A Mobile App for Sharing Smart Home Devices with People Outside The Home. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'22 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 184–187. 

Leena Alghamdi, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Mamtaj Akter, Faisal Alghamdi, Pamela Wisniewski. 2022. A User Study to Evaluate a Web-Based Prototype for Smart Home Internet of Things Device Management. In: Moallem, A. (eds) HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13333. Springer, Cham. 

Leena Alghamdi, Mamtaj Akter, Abdulmalik Alluhidan, Heather, Lipford, and Pamela Wisniewski,  “Towards Understanding the Privacy and Security Perceptions of Smart Homeowners for Comonitoring their Homes with People who Live Outside”, Manuscript in preparation.

Abdulmalik Alluhidan, Mamtaj Akter, Ashwaq Alsoubai, Jinkyung Park, Pamela Wisniewski, “The Good and Bad of Youth Social Media Usage”, Manuscript under review.

Ozzioma Oguine, Jinkyung Park, Mamtaj Akter, Johanna Olesk, Abdulmalik Alluhidan, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Pamela Wisniewski, “How Internet Facilitates Adverse Experiences and Support among CHINS”, Manuscript under review.

 Tangila I. Tanni, Mamtaj Akter, Joshua Anderson, Mary J. Amon, Pamela Wisniewski, “Examining Online Risk Experiences of LGBTQ+ Youth”, Manuscript under review.

Abdulmalik Alluhidan., Mamtaj Akter, M., Wisniewski, P., “Examining Youth's Bodyshaming Experiences on Social Media”, Manuscript in preparation.