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Overview

Heather Richter Lipford is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States. Their research spans the intersection of social sciences and computer science, focusing on themes related to privacy, security, and human-technology interaction.

Their recent research contributions include work published in venues such as the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, the Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, and the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Notable papers by Heather Richter Lipford include:

  • Towards Building Community Collective Efficacy for Managing Digital Privacy and Security within Older Adult Communities (2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)
  • From Parental Control to Joint Family Oversight (2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Examining Collaborative Support for Privacy and Security in the Broader Context of Tech Caregiving (2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Evaluating Students' Perceptions of Online Learning with 2-D Virtual Spaces (2022, Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education)
  • Exploring privacy implications of awareness and control mechanisms in smart home devices (2023, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies)

Their work addresses various main topics, including:

  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • User Authentication and Security Systems
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Child Development and Digital Technology

Heather Richter Lipford's research fields focus primarily on social sciences, with a significant body of work in computer science. Subfields include sociology and political science, information systems, human-computer interaction, education, and computer networks and communications.

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, reflecting a multidisciplinary and team-based approach to research. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Pamela Wiśniewski
  • Jess Kropczynski
  • Mamtaj Akter
  • Leena Alghamdi
  • Amy J. Godfrey

Publication venues where Heather Richter Lipford has contributed multiple works include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Best Publications

  • Strategies and struggles with privacy in an online social networking community

    Katherine Strater;Heather Richter Lipford

  • Moving beyond untagging: photo privacy in a tagged world

    Andrew Besmer;Heather Richter Lipford

  • Understanding privacy settings in facebook with an audience view

    Heather Richter Lipford;Andrew Besmer;Jason Watson

  • Contextual gaps: privacy issues on Facebook

    Gordon Hull;Heather Richter Lipford;Celine Latulipe

  • Fighting for my space: coping mechanisms for sns boundary regulation

    Pamela Wisniewski;Heather Lipford;David Wilson

  • Flipped Classroom Strategies for CS Education

    Mary Lou Maher;Celine Latulipe;Heather Lipford;Audrey Rorrer

  • Recovering Reasoning Processes from User Interactions

    Wenwen Dou;Dong Hyun Jeong;F. Stukes;W. Ribarsky

  • Usable Security: History, Themes, and Challenges

    Simson Garfinkel;Heather Richter Lipford

  • Making privacy personal

    Pamela J. Wisniewski;Bart P. Knijnenburg;Heather Richter Lipford

  • Game2Learn: building CS1 learning games for retention

    Tiffany Barnes;Heather Richter;Eve Powell;Amanda Chaffin

  • Game2Learn: improving the motivation of CS1 students

    Tiffany Barnes;Eve Powell;Amanda Chaffin;Heather Lipford

  • A team collaboration space supporting capture and access of virtual meetings

    Werner Geyer;Heather Richter;Ludwin Fuchs;Tom Frauenhofer

  • Tagged photos: concerns, perceptions, and protections

    Andrew Besmer;Heather Lipford

  • Why do programmers make security errors

    Jing Xie;Heather Richter Lipford;Bill Chu

  • Integrating Meeting Capture within a Collaborative Team Environment

    Heather A. Richter;Gregory D. Abowd;Werner Geyer;Ludwin Fuchs

  • Questions developers ask while diagnosing potential security vulnerabilities with static analysis

    Justin Smith;Brittany Johnson;Emerson Murphy-Hill;Bill Chu

  • The impact of social navigation on privacy policy configuration

    Andrew Besmer;Jason Watson;Heather Richter Lipford

  • Formalizing and integrating the dynamic model within OMT

    Enoch Y. Wang;Heather A. Richter;Betty H. C. Cheng

  • Social applications: exploring a more secure framework

    Andrew Besmer;Heather Richter Lipford;Mohamed Shehab;Gorrell Cheek

  • ASIDE: IDE support for web application security

    Jing Xie;Bill Chu;Heather Richter Lipford;John T. Melton

  • Investigating Users' Preferences and Expectations for Always-Listening Voice Assistants

    Madiha Tabassum;Tomasz Kosiński;Alisa Frik;Nathan Malkin

  • +Your circles: sharing behavior on Google+

    Jason Watson;Andrew Besmer;Heather Richter Lipford

  • From Parental Control to Joint Family Oversight

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  • Visible Flows: Contextual Integrity and the Design of Privacy Mechanisms on Social Network Sites

    Heather Richter Lipford;Gordon Hull;Celine Latulipe;Andrew Besmer

  • Security During Application Development: an Application Security Expert Perspective

    Tyler W. Thomas;Madiha Tabassum;Bill Chu;Heather Lipford

  • I don't own the data: end user perceptions of smart home device data practices and risks

    Madiha Tabassum;Tomasz Kosiński;Heather Richter Lipford

Frequent Co-Authors

Emerson Murphy-Hill
Emerson Murphy-Hill Google (United States)
David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University
Gail-Joon Ahn
Gail-Joon Ahn Arizona State University
Bart P. Knijnenburg
Bart P. Knijnenburg Clemson University
Remco Chang
Remco Chang Tufts University
Tiffany Barnes
Tiffany Barnes North Carolina State University
Robert Biddle
Robert Biddle Carleton University
Mary Lou Maher
Mary Lou Maher University of North Carolina at Charlotte
William Ribarsky
William Ribarsky University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jessica Staddon
Jessica Staddon Northeastern University

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