SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Safety and Security for Targets of Digital Violence

这项研究有一个基础的，多学科的研究议程，探讨技术在亲密伴侣暴力中的作用，并调查新工具，技术和理论的发展，以打击技术支持的虐待。这项工作很重要，因为数字技术在家庭暴力中发挥着越来越重要的作用，跟踪和监视虐待伴侣和受害者认识的其他人。这项研究建立在先前的工作基础上，详细介绍了滥用者利用技术来监视、骚扰、跟踪和控制受害者的方式。这种滥用行为对计算机安全的常见方法提出了挑战：尽管滥用者使用的攻击通常在技术上并不复杂，但攻击发生的社会和关系背景使其难以预防。拟议的工作将研究活动编织在一起，包括建立测量平台，以了解在线发现的滥用者社区，设计用于检测间谍软件或受害者设备上可用作间谍软件的应用程序的工具，开发一种对抗感知人机交互的理论，该理论将指导用户界面设计，面对拥有受害者登录凭据的对手，分析一般消费者隐私立法在滥用情况下的效力，并寻求实用的法律和政策建议。该研究将（潜在）受害者的安全放在首位，并通过与利益相关者组织的密切合作来促进这一点。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research has a foundational, multi-disciplinary research agenda that examines the role of technology in intimate partner violence and investigates the development of new tools, techniques, and theories to combat technology-enabled abuse. The work is important because digital technologies play an increasingly prominent role in domestic violence, stalking, and surveillance by abusive partners and others known to the victim. The research builds on prior work detailing the ways in which abusers exploit technology to monitor, harass, track, and control victims. This kind of abuse challenges common approaches to computer security: although the attacks that abusers employ are often technically unsophisticated, the social and relational contexts in which attacks occur make them difficult to prevent. The proposed work weaves together research activities including building measurement platforms for making sense of abuser communities that are found online, designing tools for detecting spyware or apps usable as spyware on victim devices, developing a theory of adversary-aware human computer interaction that will guide user interface design in the face of adversaries that have a victim's login credentials,analyzing the efficacy of general consumer privacy legislation for abuse contexts, and seeking out pragmatic law and policy recommendations. The research makes the safety of (potential) victims paramount, which is facilitated by working closely with stakeholder organizations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.