Social Glue

This paper summarises a pivotal chapter of my doctoral thesis. It has just been submitted for peer review and is now available as a preprint. In spite of research recognizing the home as a shared space and privacy as inherently social, privacy in smart homes has mainly been researched from an individual angle. Sometimes contrasting […]

Empowering privacy in the connected home: communal use of smart technologies (thesis). Doctor of Philosophy. Department of Computer Science and Linacre College, University of Oxford (accepted on June 30th 2022). It’s finally available online: The latest wave of internet-connected smart home technologies promises convenience and control over a diverse network of different systems, such as appliances, […]

This article was published in the 2021 yearbook of the CDT in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford. The latest wave of internet-connected smart home technologies promises convenience and control over a diverse network of different systems, such as appliances, utilities, and entertainment devices. Striking the balance between convenience and control proves to be […]

I’m happy to share that I’ve joined VDI/VDE-IT as a research consultant with a focus on cyber security. I will be consulting funding organisations and innovators/researchers on trends in the field and support clients in implementing funding programs. I still pursue my research interests and will be happy to chat about any of my work.

I finally found some time to collate information on the different research projects I worked on over the years. Check out the projects page.

Data Security and Privacy, MSc in Software and Systems Security. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

(Paper, 2nd author) accepted to CHI 2021 in Yokohama, Japan Smart home products aren’t living up to their promise. They claim to transform the way we live, providing convenience, energy efficiency, and safety. However, the reality is significantly less profound and often frustrating. This is particularly apparent in security and privacy experiences: powerlessness, confusion, and annoyance have […]

Brown Bag Seminar at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Virtual Event.

I just uploaded an old report on some research that did not become part of my thesis but was pivotal to my PhD journey: Exploring Social Acceptability and Expectations in Communal Use of Smart Home Devices (Research Report) from July 2020. This report documents an effort to explore communal use in smart homes with a factorial vignette […]

A Case for Contextualised Participatory Design Published in the 2020 Yearbook, Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security. University of Oxford. There is a gap between person-centred data protection legislation and practices, and the communal implications of internet-connected technology. Modern communal spaces – such as our homes – typically involve heterogeneous groupings of individuals with […]