Dear EECS Students,

We are looking for participants for an interesting research study (IRB #HE-2023-391) on the use of filters for image privacy.

Study Details

The purpose of this study is to investigate the tradeoff between privacy and user convenience for photo uploads to third party sites.
As a participant, you will be shown a variety of obfuscated images and asked questions pertaining to them (what can you identify, which images matches the given prompt, etc.).
The study is estimated to take around an hour and will be conducted remotely over Teams (audio may be recorded with your consent for the purposes of data enrichment).

Participation

The study images are not inappropriate, but participation is restricted to adults residing in the US.
This study is part of a thesis project within Rakesh Bobba’s & Dave Nevin’s research group. Participation, or lack thereof, will not influence your class standing, club standing, or relationship with any of the involved parties or OSU itself.
Study participants will be entered into a drawing for one of three $20 Amazon gift cards.

If you would like to participate between now and 7/29, please reach out Brandon Ellis at the following email.

Thanks for your consideration.

::Rakesh

Rakesh Bobba

Associate Professor

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) &

Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute (CoRIS)

Co-Founder, ORTSOC -- A cybersecurity teaching hospital

College of Engineering, Oregon State University