Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen

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CSCW '25CorrespondingCaring at a Distance

“Synchronized parenting is like mixing oil and water”: Reimagining Parental Control for Co-parenting in the Divorced Households

Children from divorced households are granted access to devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets), helping them to maintain meaningful contact with both parents. However, regulating their device usage across two households presents unique co-parenting challenges, which are little studied in the existing literature on paren…

CHI '25CorrespondingEarly Childhood Education Technology +2

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Towards Design and Evaluation of Developmentally Appropriate Parental Control Tool

As children progress through developmental stages, they undergo substantial biological, cognitive, and social changes, creating unique needs for online safety across different age groups (e.g., young children, tweens, teens). The existing parental control tools fail to account for these differences, leaving a notable…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 4c: Data Donation, Privacy and Security

Priming through Persuasion: Towards Secure Password Behavior

Users tend to create weak passwords even for the important accounts. The prior research shed light on user's insecure password behavior, and why the interventions, including requirement specification (e.g., password composition policies) and feedback systems (e.g., password meters) fail in practice. To this end, we pr…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 2a: Designing Technology for Parenting and Child Development

Leveraging the Power of Storytelling to Encourage and Empower Children towards Strong Passwords

With the increasing use of computer and smartphones by children, their online safety has been of major concern due to their limited security knowledge and skills. User authentication is pivotal for their security protection, where a body of work focused on children's password practices. The insights from these studies…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 2a: Designing Technology for Parenting and Child Development

“It’s hard for him to make choices sometimes and he needs guidance”: Re-orienting Parental Control for Children

With access to devices and online platforms at an increasingly younger age, it is essential to protect children from potential online risks. In our studies, we particularly focused the parents who have a child under 13 years of age. To this end, deriving from developmental psychology, we base our low-fidelity prototyp…

CHI '24CorrespondingCognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) +1

“I feel like he’s looking in the computer world to be social, but I can’t trust his judgement”: Reimagining Parental Control for Children with ASD

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often seek comfort from devices (e.g., smartphones) to deal with social overstimulation. However, such reliance exposes them to inappropriate digital content and increases susceptibility to mimicry and social vulnerability. Thus, parents having children with ASD encounter u…

CHI '24CorrespondingDark Patterns Recognition +2

A First Look into Targeted Clickbait and its Countermeasures: The Power of Storytelling

Clickbait headlines work through superlatives and intensifiers, creating information gaps to increase the relevance of their associated links that direct users to time-wasting and sometimes even malicious websites. This approach can be amplified using targeted clickbait that takes publicly available information from s…

CSCW '23CorrespondingPrivacy Strategies

A Deep Dive into User's Preferences and Behavior around Mobile Phone Sharing

Users share their personal devices with different entities in various circumstances. While prior research shed light on the broad reasons behind the sharing of mobile phones, there is a dearth of systematic study to understand the user's decision-making process and the underlying preferences and concerns in the contex…

CSCW '22CorrespondingCaregiving & Caregiver Support; Caregiving & Caregiver Support

Understanding the Behavior, Challenges, and Privacy Risks in Digital Technology Use by Nursing Professionals

With the growing adoption of digital technology in healthcare organizations, it is important to understand nursing professionals’ behavior and challenges, and the corresponding privacy implications around digital technology use. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 participants (16 nursing prof…

CSCW '225th+ AuthorOnline Communities & Inclusivity; Online Communities & Inclusivity

Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Facebook Groups

Through Facebook “Group" feature, users often sensitize communionships, join different Facebook groups, and establish imagined communities with known people and strangers. In our interview study with 32 admins and users of Facebook groups, we explored the influential factors of such communionships, the challenges th…

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