Maria K. Wolters

schoolUniversity of Edinburghbar_chart#3259 Global Rank

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#3259

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Not as easy as just update: Survey of System Administrators and Patching Behaviours

Patching software theoretically leads to improvements including security critical changes, but it can also lead to new issues. For System Administrators (sysadmins) new issues can negatively impact operations at their organization. While mitigation options like test environments exist, little is known about their prev…

CSCW '233rd AuthorPrivacy

Twitter has a Binary Privacy Setting, are Users Aware of How It Works?

Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can see their tweets. The publicly visible information changes based on the account type and the visibility of tweets also depends solely on the poster's account type which can cause uninten…

CSCW '21CorrespondingCivic Engagement, Politics, and Polarization

Atheists versus Theists: Religious Polarisation in Arab Online Communities

In this study, we investigate the extent of polarisation among theist versus atheist groups on Arab Twitter and their networks. We find four main self-identified groups of Arab users that can be distinguished by different attitudes to religion. In addition to Atheists and Theists, there are Rationalists, who promote r…

CHI '20CorrespondingPrivacy by Design & User Control +2

What is this URL's Destination? Empirical Evaluation of Users' URL Reading

Common anti-phishing advice tells users to mouse over links, look at the URL, and compare to the expected destination, implicitly assuming that they are able to read the URL. To test this assumption, we conducted a survey with 1929 participants recruited from the Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific Academic platforms.…

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