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Nora McDonald*, John S. Seberger*, Afsaneh Razi. 2024. For Me or Not for Me? The Ease With Which Teens Navigate Accurate and Inaccurate Personalized Social Media Content. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Accepted CHI 2024). *Authors contributed equally to this paper. 

Umama Dewan, Cora Sula, and Nora McDonald. 2024. Teen Reproductive Health Information Seeking and Sharing Post Roe. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Accepted CHI 2024). 

Nora McDonald and Helena Mentis. 2023. ‘Don’t Fall For This’: Communications about Cybersafety from the AARP. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW 2023).

 

Nora McDonald, Aaron Massey and Foad Hamidi. 2023. Elicitation and Empathy with AI-enhanced Adaptive Assistive Technologies (AATs): Towards Sustainable Inclusive Design Method Education. Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education.  (Accepted).      

 

Nora McDonald and Nazanin Andalibi. 2023. “I Did Watch ‘The Handmaid’s Tale'”: Threat Modeling Privacy Post-Roe in the United States. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). (Accepted to TOCHI 2023).

Alan F. Luo, Noel Warford, Samuel Dooley, Rachel Greenstadt, Michelle L. Mazurek, and Nora McDonald. 2023. How Library IT Staff Navigate Privacy and Security Challenges and Responsibilities. USINEX 2023

Nora McDonald, Rachel Greenstadt, and Andrea Forte. 2023. Intersectional Thinking about PETs: A Study of Library Privacy. (PETS 2023)

Rasika Bhalerao, Nora McDonald, Hanna Barakat, Vaughn Hamilton, Damon McCoy, and Elissa M. Redmiles (2022). Ethics and Efficacy of Unsolicited Anti-Trafficking SMS Outreach. CSCW 2022.

Nora McDonald, Adegboyega Akinsiku, Jonathan Hunter-Cevera, Maria Sanchez, Kerrie Kephart, Mark Berczynski, and Helena Mentis. 2022. Responsible Computing: A Longitudinal Study of a Peer-led Ethics Learning Framework. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. TOCE 2022.

Nora McDonald and Andrea Forte. 2022. Privacy and Vulnerable Populations. Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy. B.P. Knijnenburg, X. Page, P. Wisniewski, H.R. Lipford, N. Proferes, and J. Romano, eds. Springer International Publishing. 337–363.

Nora McDonald, Aaron Massey, and Foad Hamidi. 2021. AI-Enhanced Adaptive Assistive Technologies: Methods for AI Design Justice. Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering. Special Issue on Responsible AI and Human-AI interaction. Vol 4. No. 4.      

Nora McDonald and Andrea Forte. 2021. Powerful Privacy Norms in Social Network Discourse. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. CSCW 2021.

Nora McDonald and Helena M. Mentis. 2021. ‘Citizens Too’: Safety Setting Collaboration among Older Adults with Memory Concerns. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. TOCHI 2021

Nora McDonald and Helena Mentis. 2021. Building for ‘We’: Safety Settings for Couples with Memory Concerns. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2021. *Best paper.

Rosanna Bellini, Emily Tseng, Nora McDonald, Rachel Greenstadt, Damon McCoy, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell. 2020. "So-called privacy breeds evil": Narrative Justifications for Intimate Partner Surveillance in Online Forums. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. CSCW 2020. *Best paper.

Nora McDonald and Shimei Pan. 2020. Intersectional AI: A Study of How Information Science Students Think about Ethics & Their Impact. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. CSCW 2020.

Emily Tseng, Rosanna Bellini, Nora McDonald, Matan Danos, Rachel Greenstadt, Damon McCoy, Nicola Dell, and Thomas Ristenpart. 2020. The Tools and Tactics Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance: An Analysis of Online Infidelity Forums. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020. *Distinguished Paper Award and Internet Defense Prize, third place.

Nora McDonald, Alison Larsen, Allison Battisti, Galina Madjaroff, Aaron Massey, and Helena Mentis. 2020. Realizing Choice in Online Safeguards for Couples Adapting to Cognitive Challenges. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. SOUPS 2020.

Nora McDonald and Andrea Forte. 2020. The Politics of Privacy Theories: Moving from Norms to Vulnerabilities. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2020, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. *Best paper honorable mention.

Nora McDonald, Sarita Schoenebeck, and Andrea Forte. (2019). Reliability and Inter-rater Reliability in Qualitative Research: Norms and Guidelines for CSCW and HCI Practice. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. CSCW 2019, Austin, Texas. *Best paper honorable mention.


Kaylea Champion, Nora McDonald, Stephanie Bankes, Joseph Zhang, Rachel Greenstadt, Andrea Forte, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2019. A Forensic Qualitative Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Anonymity-Seeking Users. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. CSCW 2019, Austin, Texas.

Nora McDonald, Benjamin Mako Hill, Rachel Greenstadt, and Andrea Forte. 2019. Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Service Providers. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI, 2019, Glasgow, UK. Paper No. 671.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Nora McDonald and Andrea Forte. 2022. Privacy and Vulnerable Populations. In Modern Perspectives on Privacy. Bart Knijnenburg, Xinru Page, Pamela Wisniewski, Heather Richter Lipford, Nicholas Proferes, and Jennifer Romano Eds. Springer.

 

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

Nora McDonald, Afsaneh Razi, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, John Seberger, Denise Agosto, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. (2023). AI through the Eyes of Gen Z: Setting a Research Agenda for Emerging Technologies that Empower Our Future Generations. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2023. Virtual.

Nora McDonald, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Morgan G. Ames, Nicola Dell, Elizabeth Keneski, Manya Sleeper, Pamela Wisniewski. 2020. Privacy and Power: Acknowledging the Importance of Privacy Research and Design for Vulnerable Populations Workshop, part of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI, 2020, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

Casey Fiesler, Shion Guha, Jed R. Burbaker, Nora McDonald, Andrea Forte, Michael Muller. 2019. Qualitative Research Methods for CSCW: Challenges and Opportunities Workshop, part of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2019, Austin, Texas.

Sean Goggins, Christopher Mascaro, Nora McDonald, Alan Black, and Giuseppe Valetto. 2013. Big Social Data for Social and Information Scientists. Presentation at the iConference 2013, Fort Worth, Texas.

WORKSHOP PAPERS

Nora McDonald. 2019. Critical reflections on the lenses we use to study marginalized individuals. Paper presented at the Social Technologies for Digital Wellbeing Among Marginalized Communities Workshop, part of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2019, Austin, Texas.

Nora McDonald and Andrea Forte. 2018. Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risks: Misalignments in Design, Theory, and Thinking. Paper presented at the Privacy in Context: Critically Engaging with Theory to Guide Privacy Research and Design Workshop, part of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2018, Jersey City, NJ.

 

Nora McDonald and Andrea Forte. 2018. Promises and Challenges for Intersectional Participant Research. Paper presented at the Solidarity across Borders Workshop, part of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW 2018, Jersey City, NJ.

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