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Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification ofWeb Downloads for the Masses

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Enhancing Social Media Platforms for Educational and Humanitarian Knowledge Sharing : Analytics, Privacy, Discovery, and Delivery Aspects

Social media (SM) platforms have demonstrated their ability to facilitate knowledge sharing on the global scale. They are increasingly often employed in educational and humanitarian domains where, despite their general benefits, they expose challenges pecu ...

EPFL2017

Data-Driven Privacy Indicators

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman

Third party applications work on top of existing platforms that host users’ data. Although these apps access this data to provide users with specific services, they can also use it for monetization or profiling purposes. In practice, there is a significant ...

2016

Efficient Algorithms for the Data Exchange Problem

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sameer Pawar

In this paper, we study the data exchange problem, where a set of users is interested in gaining access to a common file, but where each has only partial knowledge about it as side-information. Assuming that the file is broken into packets, the side-inform ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart: Dissecting and Mitigating the Privacy Risk of Personal Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman, Bojan Karlas

Third party apps that work on top of personal cloud services such as Google Drive and Dropbox, require access to the user’s data in order to provide some functionality. Through detailed analysis of a hundred popular Google Drive apps from Google’s Chrome s ...

2016

Combining Content Analytics and Activity Tracking to Identify User Interests and Enable Knowledge Discovery

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Finding relevant content is one of the core activities of users interacting with a content repository, be it knowledge workers using an organizational knowledge management system at a workplace or self-regulated learners collaborating in a learning environ ...

2016

Rule of Thumb – Effect of Social Button Icons on Interaction

Denis Gillet, Samuel Bendahan, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Social buttons are now widespread in social media apps. They are used to assign weight to user content and trigger user engagement. They come in different shapes (e.g., thumb in Facebook, arrows in Reddit or StackOverflow, plus one in Google+) but very lit ...

2016

MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems

Michele Catasta

The advent of the Web reshaped the way in which humans memorize information, arguably unlike any other technological advance of the last decades. Rather than remembering the information itself, people are primed to find the needed information through Web s ...

EPFL2015