Helen Orpin

Researchers are calling for regulatory action after research has highlighted security and privacy concerns in female-oriented technologies (FemTech) such as period-tracker mobile apps and fertility and menopause smart and connected devices used beyond health and medical clinics. Experts at Royal Holloway University of London, Newcastle University, and ETH Zurich have identified significant security, privacy, and … Read more

Read the full paper on ACM Transactions for Accessible Computing: Invisible, Unreadable, and Inaudible Cookie Notices: An Evaluation of Cookie Notices for Users with Visual Impairments According to the Office of National Statistics in 2020, almost 11 million adults with disabilities recently used the Internet in the UK [1]. Visual impairment is a term used … Read more

Led by Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad (Co-Investigator on AGENCY), the Cyber Security, Privacy, Bias and Trust in FemTech (CyFer) project has explored current and potential cyber threats to women through their growing use of female-oriented technologies.   Women sharing their intimate and personal data through the use of innovative technology opens up new possibilities with the potential … Read more

Author: Dr Adrian Bermudez-Villalva (adriano.bermudezvillalva@rhul.ac.uk)  In the field of cybersecurity research, gathering data from social media platforms has become an essential task for understanding various trends, behaviours, and patterns on the internet. However, when it comes to sensitive and intimate topics such as women’s health and misinformation, researchers face a multitude of challenges in extracting … Read more

Dr Cristina Neesham (Associate Dean ERS, Newcastle University Business School) presented the AGENCY Project at the REPHRAIN Showcase Workshop (Goodenough College), London, 19-20 January 2023. The presentation outlined the Project’s core research idea and objectives, the Project teams and Advisory Board members (including their fields of expertise), the inter-connections between the different workgroups and the four case … Read more

During the AGENCY Project’s Smart Homes Workshop held at Newcastle University on 18 November 2022, Dr Cristina Neesham (Associate Dean ERS, Newcastle University Business School) presented on “How the smart home industry can address and realise their responsibilities” and on “Responsible Innovation”. Her presentations discussed ethical and societal challenges of smart technologies, policy options, and key principles … Read more

CADE 2023 Returning for its ninth year, CADE was held 26-28 June 2023. CADE took place in beautiful Venice, Italy, in a blended format, allowing participants to attend physically or virtually. Becca and Viana represented WP1 and WP3 to present an accepted extended abstract for the CADE Conference on the 26th of June, 2023. The title of … Read more

On the 26th of May, 2023 Abi, Vasilis and Viana held the Stakeholder Workshop on Misinformation, Agency, and Online Harms for Young People in the Newcastle Helix. This brought together stakeholders with interdisciplinary backgrounds across sectors (Industry, NHS, Academia, and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector), to research the complex harms caused to young adults by … Read more