Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen
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Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Utah State University
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mahdi[dot]al[hyphen]ameen[at]usu[dot]edu
If to choose between the sunny and a rainy day,
it's the later – it comes with a rainbow.
If to choose between an open city and dense woods,
it's the later – it signals unseen mysteries.
If to choose between bicycle and a car,
may be, the later – on some days, I am very lazy.
If to choose between a free trip to the moon and
a walk in evening – just anywhere – with a friend I care,
it's always the later…because…it matters…
Users' Privacy Perceptions of Emerging Technologies
"Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized, such that they are figuratively emerging into prominence from a background of nonexistence or obscurity" (wikipedia). With the rapid changes on technological landscape, people are having to deal with unprecedented privacy risks. The goal of this project is to identify users' privacy misconceptions, risks, concerns, and expectations, which lead to the design of usable and effective privacy policies for the technologies that are likely to experience wide-spread use in the near future. In our ongoing works, we investigate users' privacy perceptions of Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Digital Medicine technology.
Publications
Mahdi Nasrullah ​Al-Ameen, Apoorva Chauhan, M A Manazir Ahsan, Huzeyfe Kocabas. ``Most Companies Share Whatever They Can to Make Money!'': Comparing User's Perceptions with the Data Practices of IoT Devices. In International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA). July 2020.
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Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Huzeyfe Kocabas. A First Look into Users' Perceptions of Digital Medicine Technology. Accepted in 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). To be held on October 2020. [sp]
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*sp: short paper/poster session