- Feb 2024: My article ‘Overworking in HCI: A Reflection on Why We Are Burned Out, Stressed, and Out of Control; and What We Can Do About It’, looking at factors contributing to overwork and burnout in HCI and academia, was accepted at CHI 2024! Expect a blogpost soon…
- Jan 2024: My article ‘Shockvertising, Malware, and a Lack of Accountability: Exploring Consumer Risks of Virtual Reality Advertisements and Marketing Experiences’ was recently published at IEEE Security and Privacy! Feel free to check it out here.
- Jan 2024 I have officially started as a junior research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy.
- Sep 2023: I successfully defended my dissertation on September 7th, 2023! I am officially Dr. Mhaidli.
- Jul 2023: Our paper ‘Researchers Experiences’ in Analyzing Privacy Policies, Challenges and Opportunities’ has won a Best Student Paper award at PoPets 2023!
- Jun 2023: A thesis defense date has been tentatively set for September 2023!
- May 2023: Our paper ‘Researchers Experiences’ in Analyzing Privacy Policies, Challenges and Opportunities’ has been accepted at PoPets 2023! See the preprint here
- Nov 2022: I successfully defended my dissertation proposal on November 2022! Now off to work on the thesis…
- May 2022: Co-organized a workshop looking at the Safety, Security and Privacy challenges of XR. Some amazing papers and exciting future work! Feel free to check more out at https://wenjietseng.com/sspxr/
- May 2022: My paper ‘Privacy Impact Assessments for Digital Repositories’, looking at how Privacy Impact Assessments can be useful for safeguarding researcher data in the context of digital repositories, has been published! You can find the paper at https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v15i1.753, or a pdf version here.
- May 2021: Identifying Manipulative Advertising Techniques in XR Through Scenario Construction has been published! You can find the paper at https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445253, or a pdf version here
- Jan 2021: My paper (Identifying Manipulative Advertising Techniques in XR Through Scenario Construction) got conditionally accepted at CHI 2021! See Publications tab for a preprint PDF of the work.
- Started my 4th year at University of Michigan.
- Officially achieved candidacy at the University of Michigan.
- Started my 3rd year at University of Michigan.
- Finished my summer UX research internship at Facebook