The Privacy & Sociotechnical Systems Rhythm lab focuses on researching methodologies and developing privacy-enhancing tools to help incorporate a socially meaningful conception of privacy which meets peoples' expectations and is ethically defensible.
Research Interests (see selected publications)
- Usable privacy
- Sociotechnical systems
- Contextual Integrity: Theory and Applications
- Information Technology Policy
I am looking for students interested in working on topic of privacy in EdTech and other sociotechnical systems.
Please see the Join Us page for more details.
If you are interested in working on any of the above or other privacy related research topics, please check out the opportunities to join the lab.
News
- Recent paper co-authored with Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara was conditionally accepted to the upcoming 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing "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 model of social media governance […]
- Prof Shvartzshnaider presented work at the 6th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence that among the few papers selected for oral presentation at the workshop. LLM on the wall, who *now*, is the appropriate one of all?": Contextual Integrity Evaluation of LLMsYan Shvartzshnaider (York University), Vasisht Duddu (University of Waterloo)
- Prof Shvartzshnaider co-authored an article on EdTech Privacy in TheConversation: "We need approaches that consider contextual norms and respect social values, since privacy is about respecting the integrity of a social context. The values in the educational context have evolved over generations to ensure information flows in appropriate ways. Embracing […]
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