Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov

schoolUniversity of British Columbiabar_chart#1435 Global Rank

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Latest papers from Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov

CSCW '25CorrespondingTrust, Safety, and Privacy in Online Communities

Users’ Strategies for Ensuring Trust, Privacy, and Safety on Facebook Marketplace: Challenges and Recommendations

We engaged in semi-structured interviews with Facebook Marketplace users to gain insights into their strategies for ensuring Trust, Privacy, and Safety (TPS). Our investigation uncovered a range of approaches participants employed. We discovered that users actively sought to convey their trustworthiness to other users…

CHI '24CorrespondingPrivacy by Design & User Control +2

Trust, Privacy, and Safety Factors Associated with Decision Making in P2P Markets Based on Social Networks: A Case Study of Facebook Marketplace in USA and Canada

As peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces have grown rapidly, concerns related to trust, privacy, and safety (TPS) have also increased. While previous studies have explored these aspects in various P2P marketplaces, there has been limited research on Facebook Marketplace (FM), which is distinguished by dramatic growth and in…

CSCW '22CorrespondingData and Privacy

Users' Expectations, Experiences, and Concerns With COVID Alert, an Exposure-Notification App

We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 users of the exposure notification app COVID Alert. We identified several types of users' mental models of COVID Alert. Participants' concerns were found to be correlated with their understanding of the app. Compared to a centralized contact tracing app, COVID Alert was…

CHI '213rd AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +2

Security Notifications in Static Analysis Tools: Developers' Attitudes, Comprehension, and Ability to Act on Them

Static analysis tools (SATs) have the potential to assist developers in finding and fixing vulnerabilities in the early stages of software development, requiring them to be able to understand and act on tools' notifications. To understand how helpful such SAT guidance is to developers, we ran an online experiment (N=1…

CHI '21CorrespondingPrivacy by Design & User Control +2

On Smartphone Users' Difficulty with Understanding Implicit Authentication

Implicit authentication (IA) has recently become a popular approach for providing physical security on smartphones. It relies on behavioral traits (e.g., gait patterns) for user identification, instead of biometric data or knowledge of a PIN. However, it is not yet known whether users can understand the semantics of t…

CHI '213rd AuthorPrivacy by Design & User Control +1

Bits Under the Mattress: Understanding Different Risk Perceptions and Security Behaviors of Crypto-Asset Users

Crypto-assets are unique in tying financial wealth to the secrecy of private keys. Prior empirical work has attempted to study end-user security from both technical and organizational perspectives. However, the link between individuals' risk perceptions and security behavior was often obscured by the heterogeneity of…

CHI '21CorrespondingHonorable MentionAutoML Interfaces

The U in Crypto Stands for Usable: An Empirical Study of User Experience with Mobile Cryptocurrency Wallets

In a corpus of 45,821 app reviews of the top five mobile cryptocurrency wallets, we identified and qualitatively analyzed 6,859 reviews pertaining to the user experience (UX) with those wallets. Our analysis suggests that both new and experienced users struggle with general and domain-specific UX issues that, aside fr…

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