Our Work

Publications

Peer-reviewed research, workshop papers, and community events from the Ujima S&P group. Building since July 2021 — every paper and event is a step toward more equitable security and privacy.

Peer-Reviewed Publications
2026
RESPECT '26
Conference Paper · Forthcoming
Centering Context in Computing Ethics Education: An Experience Report
Imani Munyaka, Alexis Morales Flores, Mya Bolds
RESPECT 2026
2025
WHCAIPS '25
Workshop Paper
The Impact of LLM Assistance on User Spam Detection
Alexis Morales Flores, Jay Jhaveri, Aditya Sharma, Sarthak Rege, Imani Munyaka
Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop on Human-Centered AI Privacy and Security, pp. 54–66
2025
FAccT '25
Conference Paper
"I Hadn't Thought About That": Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics & Neurodivergence
Naba Rizvi, Taggert Smith, Tanvi Vidyala, Mya Bolds, Harper Strickland, Andrew Begel, Rua Williams, Imani Munyaka
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, pp. 3385–3399
2025
ACL '25
Conference Paper
AUTALIC: A Dataset for Anti-AUTistic Ableist Language in Context
Naba Rizvi, Harper Strickland, Daniel Gitelman, Alexis Morales Flores, Tristan Cooper, Aekta Kallepalli, Akshat Alurkar, Haaset Owens, Saleha Ahmedi, Isha Khirwadkar
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 20999–21015
2025
CSCW '25
Journal Article
From Granular Grief to Binary Belief: A Collaborative Optimization of Annotation Techniques for Anti-Autistic Language
Naba Rizvi, Alexis Morales Flores, Mohammad Rizvi, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Imani Munyaka
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 1–23
2025
Preprint
Preprint
Beyond Keywords: Evaluating Large Language Model Classification of Nuanced Ableism
Naba Rizvi, Harper Strickland, Saleha Ahmedi, Aekta Kallepalli, Isha Khirwadkar, William Wu, Imani N. S. Munyaka, Nedjma Ousidhoum
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20500, 2025
2024
ISTAS '24
Conference Paper
Parent Seeking Roblox Safety Help: Comparing Parental Roblox Concerns to Roblox Offerings
Andrew Smithwick, Chuong Nguyen, Emily Gorial, Natasha Tran, Alexis Morales Flores, Imani N. S. Munyaka
IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '24), 2024
2024
ISTAS '24
Conference Paper
A License to Prey: Investigating the Impact of Digital Loan App Regulations on Permission Requests and Privacy Policies in the Kenyan Market
Alexis Morales Flores, Michael He, William Wu, Imani N. S. Munyaka
IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '24), 2024
2024
CHI '24
Conference Paper
Are Robots Ready to Deliver Autism Inclusion?: A Critical Review
Naba Rizvi, William Wu, Mya Bolds, Raunak Mondal, Andrew Begel, Imani Munyaka
Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
2024
USEC '24
Conference Paper
"I Used to Live in Florida": Exploring the Impact of Spam Call Warning Accuracy on Callee Decision-Making
Imani Munyaka, Daniel A. Delgado, Juan Gilbert, Jaime Ruiz, Patrick Traynor
Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2024)
2023
CSCW '23
Journal Article
Decision Making Strategies and Team Efficacy in Human-AI Teams
Imani Munyaka, Zahra Ashktorab, Casey Dugan, J. Johnson, Qian Pan
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (2023): 1–24
2023
SOUPS '23
Conference Paper
Understanding the Viability of Gmail's Origin Indicator for Identifying the Sender
Enze Liu, Lu Sun, Alex Bellon, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, Imani Munyaka
Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2023), pp. 77–95
2022
JOTS
Journal Article
The Misinformation Paradox: Older Adults are Cynical about News Media, but Engage with It Anyway
Imani Munyaka, E. Hargittai, Elissa Redmiles
Journal of Online Trust and Safety, Vol. 1, No. 4
Workshop Papers
2023
WIPS '23
Workshop Paper
Work in Progress: Privacy Protection for Children 13+ in Virtual Worlds
Molly Maclaren, Jared Jose, Runpeng Jian, Zheng Zeng, Jay Jhaveri, Imani N. S. Munyaka
8th Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security (WIPS), 2023
Events Hosted
2026
Workshop
Community Event
Girls Inc. — GenAI Safety
2026
Demo
Community Event
Comienza con un Sueño — STEM Fair at UCSD
2026
Tour
Community Event
Lab Tour — UCSD Regents Scholars
2025
Workshop
Community Event
Girls Inc. — Block Based Coding for Fun
2025
Demo
Community Event
STEM for ALL Leadership Symposium — Lab Demo
2025
Tour
Community Event
Lab Tour — UCSD Regents Scholars
2024
CTF
Community Event
Girls Inc. CyberSafety CTF
OSInt & Computational Thinking
2024
Workshop
Community Event
Blue Heart Foundation — STEAM Program: Source Validation Workshop
2024
CTF
Community Event
F.A.N.C.Y Teen Girls Conference — Cyber Safety (OSINT) CTF
2024
Tour
Community Event
Lab Tour — UCSD Regents Scholars