Motivation Smartphone users are unable to preemptively identify potential mobile application malware. We developed Securacy, a mobile application that: crowdsources users’ concerns of application’s security and privacy (i.e., securacy); informs the users of potential risks; reveals hidden application network connections to servers; and pinpoints the applications’ servers location. We propose an alternative for handling permissions and abstract them as user’s…
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Our paper (CHI 1994-2013: Mapping two decades of intellectual progress through co-word analysis) received an Honorable Mention at the CHI 2014 conference. The paper is a graph-based analysis of papers published at CHI between 1994 and 2013. In this blog entry we try to explain the motivation for the paper and provide some useful background. Motivation If you are an…
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“People should help those who help them” – Alvin Gouldner * Gouldner, a social scientist, was not laying out a moral commandment in the above statement, but rather referring to the demand made by a fundamental social norm, one that is subscribed by all human societies known to us – the norm of reciprocity. This is a unwritten, unspoken “rule”…
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Consumers often make unplanned online purchase spontaneously and intuitively after being exposed to stimulating cues, like price promotion, advertisement of limited offer and attractive product appearance. Prior studies suggested that 30–50% of all retail sales are from impulse purchase while almost 90% of consumers make purchase on impulse occasionally. In particular, approximately 40% of all the money spent on e-commerce…
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