Alisa Frik, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher
at the Usable Security and Privacy research group
at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and
the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of
the Berkeley Laboratory
for Usable and Experimental Security (BLUES), under the
direction of Dr. Serge Egelman, and the
Privacy Economics Experiments Lab (PEEX)
at Carnegie Mellon University, under the direction of Prof. Alessandro Acquisti.
She has obtained a Ph.D. degree in Economics
at the School of Social Sciences, University of
Trento, Italy.
Alisa applies her expertise in behavioral and experimental
economics, decision-making, behavior change, and choice
architecture, and experience in survey and interview design,
online, lab and field experiments, and experience sampling
to investigate privacy and security attitudes and
behaviors of regular and vulnerable populations of
online users (such as older adults, employees of civil
society organizations, domestic workers and non-primary
user groups). She explores how contextual and human factors,
including trust, heuristics and biases, as well as behavioral
interventions, such as personalized nudges, commitment
devices, and privacy-enhancing tools, affect users'
behaviors and decisions. She focuses not only on web and
mobile privacy and security, but also on emerging technologies
in healthcare, Internet of Things, digital advertising, and
smart voice assistants.