Franziska Roesner

Publications

2024

• SoK or So(L)K? On the Quantitative Study of Sociodemographic Factors and Computer Security Behaviors.
  Miranda Wei, Jaron Mink, Yael Eiger, Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Franziska Roesner.
  33rd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.


• When the User Is Inside the User Interface: An Empirical Study of UI Security Properties in Augmented Reality.
  Kaiming Cheng, Arka Bhattacharya, Michelle Lin, Jaewook Lee, Aroosh Kumar, Jeffery F. Tian, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  33rd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.


• TikTok and the Art of Personalization: Investigating Exploration and Exploitation on Social Media Feeds.
  Karan Vombatkere, Sepehr Mousavi, Savvas Zannettou, Franziska Roesner, and Krishna P. Gummadi.
  The Web Conference (WebConf), May 2024.
  [ Fast Company ]


• “It doesn’t tell me anything about how my data is used”: User Perceptions of Data Collection Purposes.
  Lin Kyi, Abraham Mhaidli, Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Franziska Roesner, and Asia J. Biega.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2024.


• Analyzing User Engagement with TikTok's Short Format Video Recommendations using Data Donations.
  Savvas Zannettou, Olivia Nemes-Nemeth, Oshrat Ayalon, Angelica Goetzen, Krishna P. Gummadi, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2024.


• Sharenting on TikTok: Exploring Parental Sharing Behaviors and the Discourse Around Children’s Online Privacy.
  Sophie Stephenson, Christopher Nathaniel Page, Miranda Wei, Apu Kapadia, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2024.

2023

• User Experiences and Needs when Responding to Misinformation on Social Media.
  Pranav Malhotra, Ruican Zhong, Victor Kuan, Gargi Panatula, Michelle Weng, Andrea Bras, Connie Moon Sehat, Franziska Roesner, and Amy X. Zhang.
  HKS Misinformation Review, November 2023.


• Gender Biases in Tone Analysis: A Case Study of a Commercial Wearable Device.
  Christina Yeung, Umar Iqbal, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), October 2023.


• Reframe: An Augmented Reality Storyboarding Tool for Character-Driven Analysis of Security & Privacy Concerns.
  Shwetha Rajaram, Franziska Roesner, and Michael Nebeling.
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 2023.


• Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem.
  Umar Iqbal, Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Daniel Dubois, David Choffnes, Athina Markopoulou, Franziska Roesner, and Zubair Shafiq.
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2023.
  [ FTC PrivacyCon 2022 ]
  Best Paper Award.


• LLM Platform Security: Applying a Systematic Evaluation Framework to OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugins.
  Umar Iqbal, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  arXiv:2309.10254, September 2023.
  [ FTC PrivacyCon 2024 ]


• A Scalable Inclusive Security Intervention to Center Marginalized & Vulnerable Populations in Security & Privacy Design.
  Mattea Sim, Kurt Hugenberg, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), September 2023.


• Exploring User Reactions and Mental Models Towards Perceptual Manipulation Attacks in Mixed Reality.
  Kaiming Cheng, Jeffery F. Tian, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  32nd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2023.


• Skilled or Gullible? Gender Stereotypes Related to Computer Security and Privacy.
  Miranda Wei, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2023.


• Online Advertising in Ukraine and Russia During the 2022 Russian Invasion.
  Christina Yeung, Umar Iqbal, Yekaterina Tsipenyuk O'Neil, Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner.
  The Web Conference (WebConf), May 2023.
  Spotlight Paper.


• "There's so much responsibility on users right now:" Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment.
  Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and Kurt Thomas.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2023.


• Eliciting Security & Privacy-Informed Sharing Techniques for Multi-User Augmented Reality.
  Shwetha Rajaram, Chen Chen, Franziska Roesner, and Michael Nebeling.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2023.


• How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance.
  Jackson Stokes, Tal August, Robert Marver, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Katharina Reinecke.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2023.


• Investigating Deceptive Design in GDPR's Legitimate Interest.
  Lin Kyi, Sushil Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, Franziska Roesner, Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Frederike Zufall, and Asia J. Biega.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2023.
  [ Preliminary version appeared at the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity's research symposium on "Comparing Effects of and Responses to the GDPR and CCPA/CPRA". ]
  [ Selected for presentation at the CNIL Privacy Research Day 2023. ]
  Council of Europe Stefano Rodotà Data Protection Award 2024


• Understanding People's Concerns and Attitudes Toward Smart Cities.
  Pardis Emami-Naeini, Joseph Breda, Wei Dai, Tadayoshi Kohno, Kim Laine, Shwetak Patel, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2023.

2022

• What Factors Affect Targeting and Bids in Online Advertising? A Field Measurement Study.
  Eric Zeng, Rachel McAmis, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2022.
  [ FTC PrivacyCon 2022 ]


• Exploring Deceptive Design Patterns in Voice Interfaces.
  Kentrell Owens, Johanna Gunawan, David Choffnes, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), September 2022.


• Electronic Monitoring Smartphone Apps: An Analysis of Risks from Technical, Human-Centered, and Legal Perspectives.
  Kentrell Owens, Anita Alem, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  31st USENIX Security Symposium, August 2022.


• "Like Lesbians Walking the Perimeter": Experiences of U.S. LGBTQ+ Folks With Online Security, Safety, and Privacy Advice.
  Christine Geeng, Mike Harris, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Franziska Roesner.
  31st USENIX Security Symposium, August 2022.


• Anti-Privacy and Anti-Security Advice on TikTok: Case Studies of Technology-Enabled Surveillance and Control in Intimate Partner and Parent-Child Relationships.
  Miranda Wei, Eric Zeng, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  18th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), August 2022.


• Misinfo Reaction Frames: Reasoning about Readers’ Reactions to News Headlines.
  Saadia Gabriel, Skyler Hallinan, Maarten Sap, Pemi Nguyen, Franziska Roesner, Eunsol Choi, and Yejin Choi.
  60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), May 2022.


• Principles Matter: Integrating an Ethics Intervention into a Computer Security Course.
  Justin Petelka, Megan Finn, Franziska Roesner, and Katie Shilton.
  53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), March 2022.

2021

• Polls, Clickbait, and Commemorative $2 Bills: Problematic Political Advertising on News and Media Websites Around the 2020 U.S. Elections.
  Eric Zeng, Miranda Wei, Theo Gregersen, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2021.
  [ Project Website ] [ Dataset ]
  Runner-Up for Best Paper Award.


• COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Privacy: A Longitudinal Study of Public Opinion.
  Lucy Simko, Jack Lucas Chang, Maggie Jiang, Ryan Calo, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  ACM Journal on Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP), September 2021.
  (Supersedes arxiv:2012:01553 from December 2020 and arXiv:2005.06056 from May 2020.)


• Interactions with Potential Mis/Disinformation URLs Among U.S. Users on Facebook, 2017-2019.
  Aydan Bailey, Theo Gregersen, and Franziska Roesner.
  11th Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI), August 2021.


• Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality: Our 10-Year Retrospective.
  Franziska Roesner and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  VR4Sec: 1st International Workshop on Security for XR and XR for Security, August 2021.


• Designing Privacy-Informed Sharing Techniques for Multi-User AR Experiences.
  Shwetha Rajaram, Franziska Roesner, and Michael Nebeling.
  VR4Sec: 1st International Workshop on Security for XR and XR for Security, August 2021.


• Queer Security Advice in the U.S.
  Christine Geeng, Mike Harris, Elissa Redmiles, and Franziska Roesner.
  6th Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security (WIPS), August 2021.


• Understanding Privacy Attitudes and Concerns Towards Remote Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Pardis Emami-Naeini, Tiona Francisco, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  17th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), August 2021.
  [ Extended Version ]


• What Makes a "Bad" Ad? User Perceptions of Problematic Online Advertising.
  Eric Zeng, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2021.
  [ Project Website ] [ Dataset ] [ Talk Video ]

2020

• Social Media COVID-19 Misinformation Interventions Viewed Positively, But Have Limited Impact.
  Christine Geeng, Tiona Francisco, Jevin West, and Franziska Roesner.
  arXiv:2012.11055, December 2020.
  [ Blog Post ]
  [ FTC PrivacyCon 2021 ]
  [ AdWeek, IEEE Spectrum ]


• Usable Sexurity: Studying People’s Concerns and Strategies When Sexting.
  Christine Geeng, Jevan Hutson, and Franziska Roesner.
  16th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), August 2020.


• Making Distributed Mobile Applications SAFE: Enforcing User Privacy Policies on Untrusted Applications with Secure Application Flow Enforcement.
  Adriana Szekeres, Irene Zhang, Katelin Bailey, Isaac Ackerman, Haichen Shen, Franziska Roesner, Dan R. K. Ports, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Henry M. Levy.
  arXiv:2008.06536, August 2020.


• Smart Devices in Airbnbs: Considering Privacy and Security for both Guests and Hosts.
  Shrirang Mare, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 2020.


• Bad News: Clickbait and Deceptive Ads on News and Misinformation Websites.
  Eric Zeng, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro), May 2020.
  [ Project Website ] [ Dataset ]
  [ UW News Release, KUOW, Big Picture Science ]


• 2019 Industry-Academia Summit on Mixed Reality Security, Privacy, and Safety: Summit Report.
  Edited by Franziska Roesner and Tadayoshi Kohno; see PDF for contributors.
  Report from Summit held in September 2019 at the University of Washington, April 2020.


• Fake News on Facebook and Twitter: Investigating How People (Don’t) Investigate.
  Christine Geeng, Savanna Yee, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2020.
  [ Blog Post ]
  [ UW News Release, Public News Service, IEEE Spectrum ]

2019

• Defending Against Neural Fake News.
  Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman, Hannah Rashkin, Yonatan Bisk, Ali Farhadi, Franziska Roesner, and Yejin Choi.
  33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2019.
  (Previously arXiv:1905.12616).
  [ Project Website + Demo ]
  [ New Scientist, GeekWire, New York Times, Washington Post ]


• Understanding and Improving Security and Privacy in Multi-User Smart Homes:
  A Design Exploration and In-Home User Study.
  Eric Zeng and Franziska Roesner.
  28th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2019.
  [ Source Code: SmarterHome ] [ Talk Video ]


• Secure Multi-User Content Sharing for Augmented Reality Applications.
  Kimberly Ruth, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  28th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2019.
  [ AR Security Project Website ] [ Talk Video ]


• Computer Security and Privacy in the Interactions Between Victim Service Providers and Human Trafficking Survivors.
  Christine Chen, Nicola Dell, and Franziska Roesner.
  28th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2019.
  [ Talk Video ]
  Distinguished Paper Award.


• Who's In Control?: Interactions In Multi-User Smart Homes.
  Christine Geeng and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2019.
  [ KUOW Primed Podcast ]


• Analysis of the Susceptibility of Smart Home Programming Interfaces to End User Error.
  Mitali Palekar, Earlence Fernandes, and Franziska Roesner.
  IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings), May 2019.


• Enabling Multiple Applications to Simultaneously Augment Reality: Challenges and Directions.
  Kiron Lebeck, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  20th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2019.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]


• Consumer Smart Homes: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.
  Shrirang Mare, Logan Girvin, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  20th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2019.

2018

• Technology-Enabled Disinformation: Summary, Lessons, and Recommendations.
  John Akers, Gagan Bansal, Gabriel Cadamuro, Christine Chen, Quanze Chen, Lucy Lin, Phoebe Mulcaire, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Matthew Rockett, Lucy Simko, John Toman, Tongshuang Wu, Eric Zeng, Bill Zorn, and Franziska Roesner.
  University of Washington Technical Report UW-CSE-18-12-02 and arXiv:1812.09383, December 2018.
  [ Course Website ]


• Challenges and New Directions in Augmented Reality, Computer Security, and Neuroscience -- Part 1: Risks to Sensation and Perception.
  Stefano Baldassi, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and Moqian Tian.
  arXiv:1806.10557, June 2018.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]


• Towards Security and Privacy for Multi-User Augmented Reality: Foundations with End Users.
  Kiron Lebeck, Kimberly Ruth, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2018.
  [ AR Security Project Website ] [ Talk Video ]


• Computer Security and Privacy for Refugees in the United States.
  Lucy Simko, Ada Lerner, Samia Ibtasam, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2018.
  [ Talk Video ]


• Arya: Operating System Support for Securely Augmenting Reality.
  Kiron Lebeck, Kimberly Ruth, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (invited article), January/February 2018.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]

2017

• Rewriting History: Changing the Archived Web from the Present.
  Ada Lerner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2017.
  [ Project Website: Rewriting History ] [ Talk Video ]


• Exploring ADINT: Using Ad Targeting for Surveillance on a Budget - or - How Alice Can Buy Ads to Track Bob.
  Paul Vines, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  16th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), October 2017.
  [ FAQ ]
  [ UW News Release, Wired, The Verge, Mashable, Mozilla Internet Health Report ]


• When the Weakest Link is Strong: Secure Collaboration in the Case of the Panama Papers.
  Susan E. McGregor, Elizabeth Watkins, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Kelly Caine, and Franziska Roesner.
  26th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2017.
  [ Talk Video ]
  [ Clemson Press Release, ICIJ Blog ]


• Creative and Set in Their Ways: Challenges of Security Sensemaking in Newsrooms.
  Elizabeth Anne Watkins, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Franziska Roesner, Kelly Caine, and Susan E. McGregor.
  7th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI), August 2017.


• End User Security and Privacy Concerns with Smart Homes.
  Eric Zeng, Shrirang Mare, and Franziska Roesner.
  13th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), July 2017.
  [ Presentation Audio/Slides ]
  [ Washington Post, KUOW Primed Podcast ]


• Securing Augmented Reality Output.
  Kiron Lebeck, Kimberly Ruth, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2017.
  [ AR Security Project Website ] [ Talk Video ]
  [ Science ]
  Selected Paper, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine.


• Toys That Listen: A Study of Parents, Children, and Internet-Connected Toys.
  Emily McReynolds, Sarah Hubbard, Timothy Lau, Aditya Saraf, Maya Cakmak, and Franziska Roesner.
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2017.
  [ Talk Video ]
  [ FTC PrivacyCon 2018 ]
  [ UW News Release, Consumer Affairs, GeekWire, King5 ]


• Confidante: Usable Encrypted Email - A Case Study With Lawyers and Journalists.
  Ada Lerner, Eric Zeng, and Franziska Roesner.
  2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), April 2017.
  [ Project Website: Confidante ] [ Source Code ]


• Designing Application Permission Models that Meet User Expectations.
  Franziska Roesner.
  IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (invited article), January/February 2017.


• Securing Vulnerable Home IoT Devices with an In-Hub Security Manager.
  Anna Kornfeld Simpson, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  1st International Workshop on Pervasive Smart Living Spaces (PerLS), March 2017.

2016

• Excavating Web Trackers Using Web Archaeology.
  Ada Lerner, Anna Kornfeld Simpson, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  USENIX ;login: Magazine (invited article), Winter 2016.
  [ Project Website: Tracking Excavator ]


• Let's Talk Money: Evaluating the Security Challenges of Mobile Money in the Developing World.
  Sam Castle, Fahad Pervaiz, Galen Weld, Franziska Roesner, and Richard Anderson.
  7th ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV), November 2016.


• AUDACIOUS: User-Driven Access Control with Unmodified Operating Systems.
  Talia Ringer, Dan Grossman, and Franziska Roesner.
  23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2016.
  [ Source Code ] [ Talk Video ]


• Radiatus: a Shared-Nothing Server-Side Web Architecture.
  Raymond Cheng, William Scott, Paul Ellenbogen, Jon Howell, Franziska Roesner, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson.
  ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), October 2016.


• Internet Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Trackers:
  An Archaeological Study of Web Tracking from 1996 to 2016.
  Ada Lerner, Anna Kornfeld Simpson, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  25th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2016.
  [ Project Website: Tracking Excavator ] [ Talk Video ]
  [ UW News Release, IEEE Spectrum, TechCrunch, This Week in Law, USA Today, The Ringer]


• Individual versus Organizational Computer Security and Privacy Concerns in Journalism.
  Susan E. McGregor, Franziska Roesner, and Kelly Caine.
  16th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 2016.


• Computer Security for Data Collection Technologies.
  Camille Cobb, Samuel Sudar, Nicholas Reiter, Richard Anderson, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  8th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), June 2016.


• How to Safely Augment Reality: Challenges and Directions.
  Kiron Lebeck, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  17th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2016.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]

2015

• Rethinking Mobile Money Security for Developing Regions.
  Kiron Lebeck, Temitope Oluwafemi, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
  University of Washington Technical Report, UW-CSE-15-12-01, December 2015.


• Augmented Reality: A Technology and Policy Primer.
  Ryan Calo, Tamara Denning, Batya Friedman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Lassana Magassa, Emily McReynolds, Bryce Clayton Newell, Franziska Roesner, and Jesse Woo.
  Tech Policy Lab, University of Washington, September 2015.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]


• Investigating the Computer Security Practices and Needs of Journalists.
  Susan E. McGregor, Polina Charters, Tobin Holliday, and Franziska Roesner.
  24th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2015.
  [ Talk Video ]
  [ UW News Release, Big Think, BNR Radio, Columbia Journalism Review ]


• Analyzing the Use of Quick Response Codes in the Wild.
  Ada Lerner, Alisha Saxena, Kirk Ouimet, Ben Turley, Anthony Vance, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner.
  13th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), May 2015.


• The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff for Remotely Teleoperated Robots.
  Daniel J. Butler, Justin Huang, Franziska Roesner, and Maya Cakmak.
  10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), March 2015.
  [ NewScientist ]


• Display Leakage and Transparent Wearable Displays: Investigation of Risk, Root Causes, and Defenses.
  Tadayoshi Kohno, Joel Kollin, David Molnar, and Franziska Roesner.
  Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2015-18, February 2015.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]


• Cryptographic Currencies from a Tech-Policy Perspective: Policy Issues and Technical Directions.
  Emily McReynolds, Ada Lerner, Will Scott, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  2nd Workshop on Bitcoin Research, January 2015.

2014

• Per-App Profiles with AppFork: The Security of Two Phones with the Convenience of One.
  Temitope Oluwafemi, Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Franziska Roesner, Suman Nath, Tadayoshi Kohno.
  Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2014-153, December 2014.


• World-Driven Access Control for Continuous Sensing.
  Franziska Roesner, David Molnar, Alexander Moshchuk, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Helen J. Wang.
  21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2014.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]


• Collaborative Verification of Information Flow for a High-Assurance App Store.
  Michael D. Ernst, René Just, Suzanne Millstein, Werner M. Dietl, Stuart Pernsteiner, Franziska Roesner, Karl Koscher, Paulo Barros, Ravi Bhoraskar, Seungyeop Han, Paul Vines, and Edward X. Wu.
  21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2014.


• Augmented Reality: Hard Problems of Law and Policy.
  Franziska Roesner, Tamara Denning, Bryce Clayton Newell, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Ryan Calo.
  UbiComp 2014 Workshop on Usable Privacy & Security for wearable and domestic ubIquitous DEvices (UPSIDE), September 2014.
  [ AR Security Project Website ]


• Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality Systems.
  Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and David Molnar.
  Communications of the ACM (cover story), April 2014.
  [ Local PDF ] [ AR Security Project Website ]


• Sex, Lies, or Kittens? Investigating the Use of Snapchat's Self-Destructing Messages.
  Franziska Roesner, Brian T. Gill, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, March 2014.

2013

• Securing Embedded User Interfaces: Android and Beyond.
  Franziska Roesner and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  22nd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2013.
  [ Source Code: LayerCake ] [ Talk Video ]


• Operating System Support for Augmented Reality Applications.
  Loris D'Antoni, Alan Dunn, Suman Jana, Tadayoshi Kohno, Benjamin Livshits, David Molnar, Alexander Moshchuk, Eyal Ofek, Franziska Roesner, Scott Saponas, Margus Veanes, and Helen J. Wang.
  14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIV), May 2013.

2012

• User Interface Toolkit Mechanisms for Securing Interface Elements.
  Franziska Roesner, James Fogarty, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  25th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 2012.


• ShareMeNot: Balancing Privacy and Functionality of Third-Party Social Widgets.
  Franziska Roesner, Christopher Rovillos, Tadayoshi Kohno, and David Wetherall.
  USENIX ;login: Magazine (invited article), August 2012.
  [ Project Website: ShareMeNot ]
  [ BoingBoing, EFF, The Atlantic ]
  [ Merged with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Privacy Badger in July 2014. ]


• User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems.
  Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Alexander Moshchuk, Bryan Parno, Helen J. Wang, Crispin Cowan.
  33rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2012.
  Best Practical Paper Award.


• Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web.
  Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and David Wetherall.
  9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2012.
  [ Measurement Tool: TrackingObserver ] [ Talk Video ]
  2023 Test of Time Award.

2011

• Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces.
  Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
  20th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2011.
  [ Autosec Project Website ]
  [ NY Times, Slashdot, Scientific American, Bayern 2 Radio, NOVA scienceNOW, Deutsche Welle ]

2010

• Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile.
  Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Shwetak Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage.
  31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2010.
  [ Autosec Project Website ]
  [ NY Times, BBC, Zeit, Slashdot ]
  2020 Test of Time Award.

2008

• Counting Dependence Predictors.
  Franziska Roesner, Doug Burger, and Stephen W. Keckler.
  35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2008.

2007

• Late-Binding: Enabling Unordered Load-Store Queues.
  Simha Sethumadhavan, Franziska Roesner, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, and Joel Emer.
  34th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2007.

Theses

• Security and Privacy from Untrusted Applications in Modern and Emerging Client Platforms.
  Franziska Roesner. Advised by Tadayoshi Kohno.
  University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, PhD Dissertation. June 2014.
  [ Two talks about this work: 1, 2 ]
  William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award.


• User-Driven Access Control: A New Model for Granting Permissions in Modern Operating Systems.
  Franziska Roesner. Advised by Tadayoshi Kohno and Helen Wang.
  University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, Qualifying Examination Project. April 2011.


• Counting Dependence Predictors.
  Franziska Roesner. Advised by Doug Burger.
  The University of Texas at Austin, Tech Report #HR-08-08 (CS Undergraduate Honors Thesis). May 2008.
  UTCS Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award.