Nick Abegg
PhD student researching sociotechnical interactions of privacy, with a focus on vulnerable and marginalized groups.
About Me
I am a PhD student in Informatics Security (Privacy) at Indiana University Bloomington, with a minor in Psychology. My research examines sociotechnical interactions of privacy, with a particular focus on the privacy of vulnerable and marginalized groups. I use social science methods including surveys, qualitative interviews, and ethnography alongside technical and quantitative approaches to understand how people experience, negotiate, and respond to privacy issues.
Projects
American Attitudes Toward Parental Digital Sharing
Research investigating American attitudes toward parental digital sharing (“sharenting”) and proposed policy and technical interventions to enhance children’s privacy.
Dyad Interviews of Parent-Child Digital Sharing
Qualitative research examining how digital parental sharing is conducted, negotiated, and understood by parents and children.
Teenagers’ Felt Experiences of Harm in Video Games
Research examining teenagers’ felt experiences of harm in video games through sociotechnical and privacy-oriented perspectives.
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Experience
Research Assistant — Indiana University Bloomington
2024 – Present | Privacy research on parental digital sharing, children’s privacy, and sociotechnical interactions. Methods include large-scale survey design, factor analysis, qualitative interviews, and thematic analysis.
NSF REU — Pennsylvania State University
May 2023 – Aug 2023 | Machine learning and cybersecurity research on automated authorship obfuscation using psycho-linguistic information theory and natural language processing.
Computer Science Head Tutor — Saint Vincent College
2022 – 2024 | Managed undergraduate tutors, coordinated with professors, and primarily tutored C++ and Data Structures.
Skills
Research Methods
Large-scale survey design, factor analysis, qualitative interviews, thematic analysis, ethnography
Programming
Python, R, C++
Research Tools
Qualtrics, NVivo, RStudio, LaTeX, Git, Visual Studio Code