about me

They/Them. I am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Science at Northeastern University - Seattle Campus. I was a postdoc advised by Damon McCoy at New York University Tandon. I graduated with my PhD in 2022 from the Security and Privacy Lab at the University of Washington's School of Computer Science and Engineering. I was advised by Franziska Roesner.

I am broadly interested in user interactions with misinformation, usable privacy and security, understanding privacy practices and concerns of marginalized communities, as well as designing for privacy in the age of Internet-of-Things.

I can be contacted at cg4247 (at) nyu.edu

publications

• Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community
  K Take, V Zhong, C Geeng, E Bevensee, D McCoy, R Greenstadt
  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8 (CSCW1), 1-23
• "Say I'm in public...I don't want my nudes to pop up." User Threat Models for Using Vault Applications
  C Geeng, N Chen, KI Turk, J Hutson, D McCoy
  Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024), 433-451
• Ble-doubt: Smartphone-based detection of malicious bluetooth trackers
  J Briggs, C Geeng
  2022 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 208-214
• "Like Lesbians Walking the Perimeter": Experiences of U.S. LGBTQ+ Folks With Online Security, Safety, and Privacy Advice
  Christine Geeng, Mike Harris, Elissa M. Redmiles, and Franziska Roesner
  31st USENIX Security Symposium, Fall 2022.
  
• Usable Sexurity: Studying People’s Concerns and Strategies When Sexting
  Christine Geeng, Jevan Hutson, and Franziska Roesner
  16th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), August 2020.
  
• Fake News on Facebook and Twitter: Investigating How People (Don’t) Investigate
  Christine Geeng, Savanna Yee, Franzi Roesner
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2020.
  [ Blog Post, UW News]
• Who's In Control?: Interactions In Multi-User Smart Homes
  Christine Geeng, Franzi Roesner
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2019.

extended abstracts and workshops

• eGregor: An Eldritch Privacy Mental Model For Smart Assistants
  Christine Geeng, Anonymous Author
  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2020)
• CHI 2018 Workshop Exploring Individual Differences in Privacy - LGBTQ Privacy Concerns on Social Media
  Christine Geeng, Alexis Hiniker
• CHI 2017 Workshop Making Home: Asserting Agency in the Age of IoT - Privacy Notice in IoT Homes
  Christine Geeng

other

• Invited speaker at the Federal Trade Commission's 2021 PrivacyCon to present Social Media COVID-19 Misinformation Interventions Viewed Positively, But Have Limited Impact.
• IX Interactions Article: Moving beyond ‘one-size fits all’: Research Considerations for Working with Vulnerable Populations
  Walker, Ashley Marie and Yao, Yaxing and Geeng, Christine and Hoyle, Roberto and Wisniewski, Pamela.

contact

cg4247 (at) nyu.edu

christinegeeng@Twitter