Shirin Shams, M. Sc.

Biography

I am a Human-Computer Interaction researcher and a former User Experience (UX) Consultant. Passionate to enhance the quality of human interaction with technology. The research track I am focusing on is the Human-Centred approach for privacy enhancing technologies.

Education

• PhD Candidate at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, since 01.2023
• 2017 Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University London
• 2014 Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng) in Computer Software Engineering at Central BranchTehran University

Research interests

• human computer interaction
• usability engineering
• usable privacy in web

Publications

• C. Warin, D. Seeger, S. Shams, and D. Reinhardt. PrivXR: A Cross-Platform Privacy-Preserving API and Privacy Panel for Extended Reality. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Work-in-Progress), 2024. [PDF]
• S. Shams and D. Reinhardt. Vision: Supporting Citizens in Adopting Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Proceedings of the 3rd European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), 2023. [PDF]