Exploring Privacy Aspects of Smartphone Notifications
User privacy & HCI bachelor's thesis studying privacy risks of smartphone notifications through a survey of 206 participants.
| Aug 2020 – Present | User Privacy · HCI · Statistics · Survey Design · Bachelor’s Thesis |
1 of 10 selected for the Global Talent Attraction Program with financial scholarship to pursue research under the mentorship of Prof. Sameer Patil.
Presented novel scientific contributions demonstrating user privacy risks caused by smartphone notifications through a study titled Exploring Privacy Aspects of Smartphone Notifications.
Findings
- Reported various privacy violations due to notifications, such as unwanted information disclosures, intimacy breach, and inopportune intrusions
- 61% of participants (n = 206) reported at least one negative experience connected to notifications
- Recommended design suggestions for privacy-sensitive notification delivery mechanisms
Outcome: Full paper accepted for publication at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI ‘21).