Human Aspects

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Visible to the public TWC SBE: Medium: Collaborative: Dollars for Hertz: Making Trustworthy Spectrum Sharing Technically and Economically Viable

Submitted by Michelle Connolly on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 1:52pm

The critical role of spectrum as a catalyst for economic growth was highlighted in the 2010 National Broadband Plan (NBP). A challenge for the NBP is realizing optimal spectrum sharing in the presence of interference caused by rogue transmissions from any source, but particularly secondary users who share the spectrum. This complex problem straddles wireless technology, industrial economics, international standards, and regulatory policy.

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Visible to the public EAGER: Protecting Election Integrity Via Automated Ballot Usability Evaluation

Submitted by Michael Byrne on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 9:40am

Anything that causes the vote tally to differ from the intent of the voters is a threat to election integrity. While most threats to election integrity have concerned security, there is another critical threat to election integrity: usability. When voters are unable to successfully communicate their intent due to poor ballot design, this threatens the integrity of the election, no matter what the level of security is.

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Visible to the public EAGER: Can You Trust Apps Age Recommendations? Inconsistent and Unreliable Maturity Ratings on Mobile Platforms

Submitted by Yilu Zhou on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 2:21pm

While smart phones provide an excellent way for communication, entertaining and education, they also raise many privacy and security concerns. Children are facing the risks of being exposed to inappropriate content due to mis-rated Apps. Both Android and iOS apps come with maturity ratings that examine the existence and intensity of mature themes within each app. However, each mobile platform adopts its own rating policy and rating strategy which creates inconsistency and inaccurate ratings. The maturity ratings for Android apps are purely a result of app developers' self-report.

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Visible to the public EAGER: By the People, For the People: Community Ratings for App Privacy

Submitted by Shriram Krishnamu... on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 2:18pm

Application stores use sophisticated user interfaces to help users understand the permissions sought by applications. Unfortunately, these interfaces are complex and may fail to address their goal of helping users give informed consent. As a result, users may inadvertently surrender private information or open themselves up to security attacks.

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https://www.research.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_win...