Human Computer Interaction and Online Privacy

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Human Computer Interaction and Online Privacy

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Moses Namara from the HATLab joins us to discuss his research into the interaction between privacy and human-computer interaction.

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Jul 27, 2020

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Data in Healthcare IT with Shahid Shah: Our guest this week is Shahid Shah. Shahid is CEO at Netspective, and writes three blogs: Health Care Guy, Shahid Shah, and HitSphere - the Healthcare IT Supersite. During the program, Kyle recommended a talk from the 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium... by Data Skeptic
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