Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors as Physical Unclonable Identifiers in Anti-counterfeiting

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCholesteric Spherical Reflectors as Physical Unclonable Identifiers in Anti-counterfeitingMónica P. Arenas , Hüseyin Demirci and Gabriele Lenzini Abstract:Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs) are made of droplets of cholesteric liquid crystals (the same material under the screen of our mobile phones) but molded in a spherical shape and hardened into a solid. … Continued

Visualisation Techniques for Consent: Finding Common Ground in Comic Art with Indigenous Populations

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityVisualisation Techniques for Consent: Finding Common Ground in Comic Art with Indigenous PopulationsBotes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna RossiAbstract:With emerging technologies such as genome research and the digitization of health records comes the need for new models of informed consent. In this climate of innovation people are often prone to explore the … Continued

Which Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityWhich Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography Arianna Rossi, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Following GDPR's Article12.7's proposal to use standardized icons to inform data subject in "an easily visible, intelligible and clearly legible manner," several icon sets have been developed. In this paper, we … Continued

Back to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and Data

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityBack to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and DataBotes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna RossiAbstract:Since the myth of the tower of Babel, humankind has been concerned with the impossibility of communicating across cultures, societies, and literacy levels. Although multilingualism can solve some of these challenges, … Continued

Proactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart Contracts

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityProactive Legal Design for Health Data Sharing based on Smart ContractsArianna Rossi, Helena Haapio, Abstract:The technology of smart contracts neglects the fact that people use contracts as social resources to manage their relations. Th e inflexibility that they introduce, by design, might short-circuit a number of social uses to which … Continued

Cookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal Lens

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCookie Banners, What’s the Purpose? Analyzing Cookie Banner Text Through a Legal LensCristiana Santos , Arianna Rossi, Lorena Sanchez Chamorro, Kerstin Bongard, Ruba Abu-SalmaAbstract:A cookie banner pops up when a user visits a website for the first time, requesting consent to the use of cookies and other trackers for a … Continued

“I personally relate it to the traffic light”: a user study on security & privacy indicators in a secure email system committed to privacy by default

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical Cybersecurity“I personally relate it to the traffic light”: a user study on security & privacy indicators in a secure email system committed to privacy by defaultStojkovski Borce, Lenzini Gabriele, Koenig VincentAbstract:Improving the usability and adoption of secure (i.e. end-to-end encrypted) email systems has been a notorious challenge for over two … Continued

I am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It s Ridiculous! — Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityI am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It s Ridiculous! — Dark Patterns from the End-User PerspectiveKerstin Bongard-Blanchy, Arianna Rossi, Salvador Rivas, Sophie Doublet, Vincent Koenig, Gabriele LenziniAbstract:Online services pervasively employ manipulative designs (i.e., dark patterns) to influence users to purchase goods and subscriptions, spend more … Continued

All in one stroke? Intervention Spaces for Dark Patterns

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAll in one stroke? Intervention Spaces for Dark PatternsArianna Rossi, Kerstin Bongard-BlanchyAbstract:This position paper draws from the complexity of dark patterns to develop arguments for differentiated interventions. We propose a matrix of interventions with a measure axis (from user-directed to environmentdirected) and a scope axis (from general to specific). We … Continued

Enhancing acetic acid and 5 hydroxymethyl furfural tolerance of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum through adaptive laboratory evolution

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityEnhancing acetic acid and 5 hydroxymethyl furfural tolerance of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum through adaptive laboratory evolutionRafael F. Alves, Ana M. Zetty-Arenas, Huseyin Demirci, Oscar Dias, Isabel Rocha, Thiago O. Basso, Sindelia FreitasAbstract:In this study, adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) was applied to isolate four strains of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum able to grow in … Continued