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+ | ==== Designing Privacy-preserving Systems ==== | ||
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+ | Modern sociotechnical systems share and collect vast amounts of information. These systems violate users’ privacy by ignoring the context in which the information is shared and failing to incorporate contextual information norms. | ||
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+ | Using techniques in natural language processing, machine learning, network, and data analysis, this project is set to explore the privacy implications of mobile apps, online platforms, and other systems in different social contexts/ | ||
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+ | To tackle this challenge, the project will operationalize a cutting-edge privacy theory and methodologies to conduct an analysis of existing technologies and design privacy-enhancing tools. | ||
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+ | Students will help analyze information handling practices of online services and design privacy-enhancing tools. | ||
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+ | Specific tasks include: comprehensive literature review of existing methodologies and tools, analysis of privacy policies and regulations, | ||
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+ | For prior project, see [[https:// | ||
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+ | **Required skills or prerequisites: | ||
+ | Good programming and data analysis skills overall, and experience in using Jupyter and/or R for data analysis. Ability to work independently. | ||
+ | Interest in usable privacy, critical analysis of privacy policies and privacy related regulation. | ||
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+ | **Recommended skills or prerequisites: | ||
+ | Experience with Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing techniques, HCI design. | ||
+ | Students with diverse backgrounds, | ||
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+ | **Instructions: | ||
+ | Please fill in [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Designing Privacy-preserving | ||
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+ | Designing a privacy-preserving VR experience requires adhering to contextual integrity of users’ data . This involves accounting for different modes of interaction and ensuring robustness to accommodate the evolving privacy norms associated with future VR adaptations. | ||
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+ | To tackle this challenge, the project will operationalize a cutting-edge privacy theory and methodologies to develop mechanisms | ||
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+ | Students will help analyze information handling practices of VR applications and design tools to enhance privacy of VR users. | ||
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+ | Specific tasks include conducting a comprehensive literature review of existing methodologies and tools, performing a dynamic analysis of data practices in VR applications, | ||
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+ | For reference, see these papers: | ||
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+ | **Required skills or prerequisites: | ||
+ | * Good programming skills (experience with coding in Unity is a plus) | ||
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+ | ==== Mnemonic-Based Serious Games ==== | ||
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+ | Many courses in Social Science, Health Science, and Computer Science that require memorization are becoming more and more challenging for many college and university students, especially with the ever-increasing volume of textbooks and course materials due to the growing body of knowledge. In courses, such as psychology, biology, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that are memorization intensive, students are often overwhelmed by the lengthy course materials, readings, and the uphill challenge to retain and recall most of the content taught in class. Given the many challenges that most students face in higher education, including having to work to help pay for their university education, they often lack sufficient time to read and properly understand the taught material. Hence, there is a need to find effective ways to support student learning. We argue that serious games can be utilized to support student learning in memory-intensive courses to increase content comprehension and retention. Serious games are interactive applications that use game elements for education purposes rather than entertainment. They are increasingly being used in the education domain to support student learning. In this project, we aim to design, implement, and evaluate a mnemonic-based serious game to help students learn and retain taught material easily in memorization-intensive courses individually and collaboratively. | ||
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+ | **Required skills or prerequisites: | ||
+ | * Prototyping with tools such as Figma and programming on the mobile platform (e.g., Android, cross-platform). | ||
+ | * Software Engineering; | ||
+ | * Ability to work independently as well as in a team. | ||
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+ | Contact professor at email above. | ||
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==== Strengthening the Security of Autograders ==== | ==== Strengthening the Security of Autograders ==== | ||
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+ | **[revised 2024-03-15, added 2024-04-11]** | ||
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Unit testing platforms like Java's JUnit and Python' | Unit testing platforms like Java's JUnit and Python' | ||
- | For this project you will strengthen the security of an autograder process for either Python or Java code for the PrairieLearn platform. You will start by creating possible attack vectors in the form of code that is expected to cause the autograder to pass a test without actually returning the expected results. Examples of attack vectors include code that saves or outputs well-formatted values that are interpreted by the autograder as a success, code that is able to identify secret information from the autograder code, and/or code that crashes the original autograder process. Then you will implement safeguards that ensure student-submitted code is unable to bypass container sandbox limitations, | + | For this project you will strengthen the security of an autograder process for either |
You will work in coordination with the supervisor and the PrairieLearn developer community to brainstorm possible strategies and guidelines. Your final deliverable will be a pull request to the PrairieLearn codebase with the proposed fix. | You will work in coordination with the supervisor and the PrairieLearn developer community to brainstorm possible strategies and guidelines. Your final deliverable will be a pull request to the PrairieLearn codebase with the proposed fix. | ||
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* To work on autograder for Python code, you must have completed EECS 1015 (or a similar course) with an A/A+. Must have solid programming skills in Python, including the use of unit testing. | * To work on autograder for Python code, you must have completed EECS 1015 (or a similar course) with an A/A+. Must have solid programming skills in Python, including the use of unit testing. | ||
* To work on autograder for Java code, you must have completed EECS2030 (or a similar course) with an A/A+. Must have solid programming skills in Java, including the use of unit testing | * To work on autograder for Java code, you must have completed EECS2030 (or a similar course) with an A/A+. Must have solid programming skills in Java, including the use of unit testing | ||
+ | * **To work on autograder for C code, you must have completed EECS 2031 (or a similar course) with an A/A+. Must have solid programming skills in C, preferably including the use of unit testing (though experience with unit testing in other languages is acceptable).** | ||
* Must be able to work independently and have good communication skills. | * Must be able to work independently and have good communication skills. | ||
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**Instructions: | **Instructions: | ||
Additional information about PrairieLearn can be found here: https:// | Additional information about PrairieLearn can be found here: https:// | ||
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==== Chat Bots in LMS for Easy Course Navigation ==== | ==== Chat Bots in LMS for Easy Course Navigation ==== | ||
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Please send your c.v., transcript, and Statement of Interest in the project to the project supervisor. | Please send your c.v., transcript, and Statement of Interest in the project to the project supervisor. | ||
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==== Autograders for C and Linux Programs in Undergraduate Courses ==== | ==== Autograders for C and Linux Programs in Undergraduate Courses ==== | ||
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