Fiona Westin – CHORUS Lab

About

Fiona is a RA in the CHORUS lab. She has a Master in Human Computer Interaction and a Combined Honours Bachelor of Arts in the History of Science and Technology, and German.

Research Interests

Her research interests are in social aspects of security and privacy, and manipulative design of online technologies (i.e., dark patterns).

Connect

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiona_hci
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-hci/

Publications

Conference Papers

Fiona Westin, Kalpana Hundlani, and Sonia Chiasson. “I just want to play games with friends and it asked me for all of my information”: Trading privacy for connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. In European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), page 40–52. ACM 2022.

[Bibtex]

@inproceedings{westin2022tradingprivacy-eurousec,
title={``I just want to play games with friends and it asked me for all of my information'': Trading privacy for connection during the COVID-19 pandemic},
author={Westin, Fiona and Hundlani, Kalpana and Chiasson, Sonia},
booktitle={European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC)},
pages={40--52},
year={2022},
publisher = {ACM},
note = {Conference Papers},
doi = {10.1145/3549015.3555672}
}

Maxwell Keleher, Fiona Westin, Preethi Nagabandi, and Sonia Chiasson. How Well Do Experts Understand End-Users’ Perceptions of Manipulative Patterns?. In Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI), page 1–21. ACM 2022.

[Bibtex]

@inproceedings{keleher2022manipulativepatterns-nordichi,
title={How Well Do Experts Understand End-Users’ Perceptions of Manipulative Patterns?},
author={Keleher, Maxwell and Westin, Fiona and Nagabandi, Preethi and Chiasson, Sonia},
booktitle={Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI)},
publisher = {ACM},
pages={1--21},
year={2022},
note = {Conference Papers},
doi = {10.1145/3546155.3546656}
}

Fiona Westin and Sonia Chiasson. [Paper] “It’s So Difficult to Sever that Connection”: The Role of FoMO in Users’ Reluctant Privacy Behaviours. In SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, 2021.

[Bibtex]

@INPROCEEDINGS{westin2021-fomointerview-chi,
author = {Fiona Westin AND Sonia Chiasson},
title = {[Paper] ``It's So Difficult to Sever that Connection'':
The Role of FoMO in Users' Reluctant Privacy Behaviours},
booktitle = {SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)},
year = {2021},
note = {Conference Papers},
organization = {ACM}
}

Fiona Westin and Sonia Chiasson. [Paper] Opt Out of Privacy or Go Home: Understanding Reluctant Privacy Behaviours through the FoMO-Centric Design Paradigm. In New Security Paradigm Workshop (NSPW). ACM, 2019.

[Bibtex]

@INPROCEEDINGS{westin2019-fomo-nspw,
author = {Fiona Westin AND Sonia Chiasson},
title = {[Paper] Opt Out of Privacy or Go Home: Understanding Reluctant Privacy Behaviours through the FoMO-Centric Design Paradigm },
booktitle = {New Security Paradigm Workshop (NSPW)},
year = {2019},
note = {Conference Papers},
organization = {ACM}
}

Extended Abstracts and Workshop Papers

Fiona Westin, Kalpana Hundlani, and Sonia Chiasson. [Extended Abstract] “I’ll throw in a courtesy like”: A poster about features, etiquette, and user privacy. In Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS). USENIX, 2021.
[Bibtex]

@INPROCEEDINGS{westing2021-etiquette-soups,
author = {Fiona Westin AND Kalpana Hundlani AND Sonia Chiasson},
title = {[Extended Abstract] ``I'll throw in a courtesy like'': A poster about features, etiquette, and user privacy },
booktitle = {Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS)},
year = {2021},
note = {Extended Abstracts and Workshop Papers},
organization = {USENIX}
}

Posters and Others

Fiona Westin and Sonia Chiasson. [Poster] Giving up on privacy for Fear of Missing Out. SERENE-RISC Annual Conference, 2019.
[Bibtex]

@MISC{westin-2019-fomo-serene,
author={Fiona Westin AND Sonia Chiasson},
title = {[Poster] Giving up on privacy for Fear of Missing Out},
year = {2019},
howpublished = {SERENE-RISC Annual Conference},
note = {Posters and Others}
}

Theses

Fiona Westin. [Thesis] FoMO-Centricity: How social media’s dark designs cause users to reluctantly give up their data. Master’s thesis, Human Computer Interaction, Carleton University, 2020.

[Bibtex]

@MASTERSTHESIS{westin2020thesis-carleton,
author = {Fiona Westin},
title = {[Thesis] FoMO-Centricity: How social media's dark designs cause users to reluctantly give up their data},
school = {Human Computer Interaction, Carleton University},
year = {2020},
note = {Theses}
}