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Welcome to the CHIMPS Lab Website

We are the Computer Human Interaction: Mobile Privacy Security Lab (CHIMPS Lab for short) of Carnegie Mellon University. Our research mainly focuses on:

  • ubiquitous computing especially mobile social computing and context-aware computing
  • usable privacy and security for ubicomp and cloud computing environments

Research Projects

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Autobiographical Authentication

Sauvik Das, Jason Hong

Studying the memorability of people's everyday interactions with their mobile phones.

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Detection Of Behavior Change In People With Depression

Jun-Ki Min, Afsaneh Doryab, Jason Wiese, Jason Hong

In this project, we aim at building an intelligent system that can detect change in people’s behavior based on their drug therapy for depression.

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Mobile Privacy Project

More information coming soon..

What's New?

Papers accepted to MobileHCI, Ubicomp, and KDD

By Jason Hong on May 13, 2013

We have three papers recently accepted.

At Mobile HCI 2013, we have Investigating Collaborative Mobile Search Behaviors.

At Ubicomp 2013, we have Memorability of the Mundane: Exploring Capturable Everyday Memory for Autobiographical Authentication.

At KDD 2013, we have Why People Hate Your App — Making Sense of User Feedback in a Mobile App Store

Sauvik's work mentioned on The Atlantic web site

By Jason Hong on April 16, 2013

Sauvik's work on self-censorship on Facebook is featured on The Atlantic's web site. Here's a link to Sauvik's forthcoming ICWSM 2013 paper.

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Recent Publications

Self-Censorship on Facebook [ICWSM, July 2013]

Mining Smartphone Data to Classify Life-Facets of Social Relationships [CSCW, February 2013]

The Post that Wasn’t: Exploring Self-Censorship on Facebook [CSCW, February 2013]

TimeBlocks: "Mom, Can I Have Another Block of Time?" [CHI, May 2012]

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