UW Information School professor Batya Friedman is part of a team that won the first Multidisciplinary Paper in Privacy Award. The award was presented at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference, held January 25-27 in Brussels, Belgium. The award was created to highlight the importance of multidisciplinary research in privacy. Dr. Friedman won the award for "Parenting from the pocket: Value tensions and technical directions for secure and private parent-teen mobile safety," which she co-authored with six others. The full paper is available on the Value-Sensitive Design Research Lab website. Friedman is the director of the lab.

The paper is about values tensions and technical directions for secure and private parent-teen mobile phone communications. The paper was originally published at SOUPS (Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security) in July 2010. The paper emerged from work funded by a National Science Foundation grant on Mobile Personal Privacy and Security: A New Framework and Technology to Account for Human Values, with Tadayoshi Kohno, UW Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), and Alan Borning, who holds appointments with the iSchool and CSE. The lead grad student (from CSE) is Alexei Czeskis.

The winning paper was chosen among all the multi-disciplinary privacy papers published or submitted for publication (conferences or journals) in 2010 from those nominated. For more information about the award, please visit the CPDP website.

The full citation:

Czeskis, A., Dermendjieva, I., Yapit, H., Borning, A., Friedman, B., Gill, B.T., and Kohno, T. (2010). Parenting from the pocket: Value tensions and technical directions for secure and private parent-teen mobile safety. Proceedings of SOUPS 2010. New York: ACM Press.