Publications by Joana Catarina Soares Machado

An End-to-End Data Pipeline for Managing Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Joana Catarina Soares Machado

Despite the importance of learning analytics in digital education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data while complying with ethical and privacy legislation. We propose a set of related tool ...

2021

Towards Open Data in Digital Education Platforms

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Joana Catarina Soares Machado

Despite the traction gained by the open data movement and the rise of big data and learning analytics in education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data using openly-available digital educat ...

IEEE2019

A Predictive Model for User Motivation and Utility Implications of Privacy-Protection Mechanisms in Location Check-Ins

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Reza Shokri, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Stefan Mihaila

Location check-ins contain both geographical and semantic information about the visited venues. Semantic information is usually represented by means of tags (e.g., “restaurant”). Such data can reveal some personal information about users beyond what they a ...

2018

SmarPer: Context-Aware and Automatic Runtime-Permissions for Mobile Devices

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Katarzyna Lucja Olejnik

Permission systems are the main defense that mobile platforms, such as Android and iOS, offer to users to protect their private data from prying apps. However, due to the tension between usability and control, such systems have several limitations that oft ...

IEEE2017