Sentences with phrase «researchers tested user»

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In a new study by Natalie Sest and Evita March of Federation University in Australia, researchers gave 415 internet users questionnaires that tested for various personality traits and for propensity to trolling behavior, looking for the specific traits that would make someone likely to become a troll.

An academic researcher at Cambridge University built an app called thisisyourdigitallife, which offered to pay Facebook users to take a personality test and agree to share that data for academic use.

What Facebook says: Facebook says an academic researcher obtained the user data legitimately (via an app that offered innocuous - seeming «personality tests») but misused it when he passed it to the data firm.

Using a questionnaire designed to test for substance addiction, researchers determined that some regular users of indoor tanning salons are tanning addicts.

«Unintentional drug use continues among molly users in EDM party scene: Researchers use hair - testing to confirm unintended drug use.»

The researchers have tested their method in two scenarios: in a workspace, the camera was mounted on the target object, and in an everyday situation, a user wore an on - body camera, so that it took on a first - person perspective.

After testing the approach in two different interiors for signal strength and speed, the researchers reported that optimized 3 - D reflectors provide numerous benefits including: strong physical security, low cost, and ease of use for non-expert users.

To ensure that they were interacting with the services as everyday users would, the researchers conducted manual, rather than automated, tests, personally logging in, entering requested user data into text fields, and navigating the environment.

The researchers studied the Truven Health Analytics Treatment Cost Calculator, an online price transparency tool, which tells users how much they would pay out of pocket for services such as X-rays, lab tests, outpatient surgeries or physician office visits.

We still leave the control in the hands of the users but we also offer what we see as the best matching tests and services that are on the market, developed for us by Dr. Helen Fisher, one of the major researchers in the field of romantic interpersonal attraction and the author of «Why we Love».

For testing the accuracy, researchers used entire data sets from a dating website which had details on about 47,000 users over 196 days.

VANCOUVER Researchers say opioid users in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside are increasingly testing positive for the potent painkiller fentanyl, which was linked to the majority of fatal overdoses in British Columbia last year.

Recently, the cyber security researchers have encountered a strain of scam emails that attempts to extort money out of users from Australia and We tested the biggest dating sites in this space and report back about which are legit and which are scams.

The researchers suggest a long - term study, which would test the technology on users around the world.

Vast sums are spent user testing games and analysing behaviour as a result, but by employing large - scale analytical techniques, researchers can target this problem at the scale of populations.

It's definitely not the first time that security researchers have triangulated the location of mobile app users to demonstrate just how exposed they are, and for some people, the results from Wandera's Strava test might even seem obvious.

Facebook representatives have since responded, «We will not change our practice of refusing to pay rewards to researchers who have tested vulnerabilities against real users.»

The heart rate monitors built into the Apple Watch and other wearable devices can detect abnormal heart rhythms with 97 percent accuracy, according to a new study conducted by the team behind the Cardiogram app for Apple Watch in conjunction with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.More than 139 million heart rate and step count measurements were collected from 9,750 users of the Cardiogram app who also enrolled in the UC San Francisco Health eHeart Study, with the data used to train DeepHeart, Cardiogram's deep neural network.Once trained, DeepHeart was able to read heart rate data collected by wearables, distinguishing between normal heart rhythm and atrial fibrillation with a 97 percent accuracy rate, both when testing UCSF patients with known heart

An academic researcher at Cambridge University built an app called thisisyourdigitallife, which offered to pay Facebook users to take a personality test and agree to share that data for academic use.

The data was passed to Cambridge Analytica by a researcher who had gathered it with from Facebook users taking part in a «psychological test» and who, inadvertently, granted access to their Facebook friends» data in the process.

The controversy started in 2014, when a researcher at the firm collected user data through a third - party app that would ask users to take a personality test.

Reports emerged over the weekend in the Observer and The New York Times that Aleksandr Kogan, a lecturer in the psychology department at Cambridge University, created a personality test app that he used to amass personal data for Facebook users, as well as their friends, in part via a Facebook API, in apparent compliance with Facebook's terms of service for academic researchers.

securityaffairs.co - Cyber security researcher Paolo Stagno (aka VoidSec) has tested seventy VPN providers and found 16 of them leaks users» IPs via WebRTC (23 %)

A Cambridge University researcher made an app that asked Facebook users to take a personality test.

A Cambridge University researcher apparently made an app that asked Facebook users to take a personality test.

Cambridge Analytica acquired data from millions of users via a personality test called «thisisyourdigitallife» developed by researcher Aleksandr Kogan.

In 2014, a researcher collected the data through an app that asked users to take a personality test for academic research purposes.

• Recruited, managed, and reviewed a team of programmers, analysts, researchers, and IT professionals • Served as part of executive management to develop long - term business and marketing strategies • Developed creative marketing themes and strategies for a wide range of client products and services • Reinforced client branding through integrated marketing campaigns across multiple mediums • Successfully managed multiple research, analysis, and development projects for many Fortune 500 clients • Created rapid prototyping, user research methods, online research, virtual stores, and more for Yamaha, ABC News, Disney, Kraft Foods, General Mills, Philips, TD Bank, Ziff Davis, and Oakhurst • Utilized various metrics and user research to gauge campaign efficacy and tailor to specific audiences • Performed website / product usability testing / research and generated solutions for client challenges