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Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

• "They are not my children to post": Examining Non-Parental Sharenting Practices in In-home Childcare. Meghna Gupta, Sophie Stephenson, Apu Kapadia, Julie Kientz, and Franziska Roesner. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2026*.* PDF
• Trauma-Informed Digital Evidence Collection: A Design Inquiry into Evidence Practices for Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence. Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan, and Rahul Chatterjee. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026*.* ACM DL 🏆 Best Paper Award
• Consent Under Constraints: Negotiating Photography and Media Sharing in Institutionalized Childcare. Meghna Gupta, George Zhang, Sophie Stephenson, Franziska Roesner, and Julie A. Kientz. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026*.* ACM DL
• Legal Evidence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Wisconsin: Surfacing Barriers Within and Beyond the Courtroom. Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Akhil Polamarasetty, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan, and Rahul Chatterjee. **Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9, Issue CSCW7, 2025. ACM DL 🏅 Honorable Mention for Best Paper 📰 Coverage: [UW Madison](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lP5ngfT_M>)
• Digital Technologies and Human Trafficking: Combating Coercive Control and Navigating Digital Autonomy. Sophie Stephenson, Lana Ramjit, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell. *****ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)*, 2025. ACM DL
• Sharenting on TikTok: Exploring Parental Sharing Behaviors and the Discourse Around Children’s Online Privacy. Sophie Stephenson, Christopher Nathaniel Page, Miranda Wei, Apu Kapadia, and Franziska Roesner. *****ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)*, 2024. ACM DL
📰 Coverage: [UW Madison](<https://cdis.wisc.edu/stephensons-research-highlights-tiktok-sharenting-privacy-concerns/>)
• Abuse Vectors: A Framework for Conceptualizing IoT-Enabled Interpersonal Abuse. Sophie Stephenson, Majed Almansoori, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Danny Yuxing Huang, and Rahul Chatterjee. USENIX Security Symposium, 2023*.* Webpage
• “It’s the Equivalent of Feeling Like You’re in Jail”: Lessons from Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts of IoT-Enabled Intimate Partner Abuse. Sophie Stephenson, Majed Almansoori, Pardis Emami-Naeini, and Rahul Chatterjee. **USENIX Security Symposium, 2023. Webpage
• Sneaky Spy Devices and Defective Detectors: The Ecosystem of Intimate Partner Surveillance with Covert Devices. Rose Ceccio, ****Sophie Stephenson, Varun Chadha, Danny Yuxing Huang, and Rahul Chatterjee. USENIX Security Symposium, 2023. Webpage ;login:
• SoK: Authentication in Augmented and Virtual Reality. Sophie Stephenson, Bijeeta Pal, Stephen Fan, Earlence Fernandes, Yuhang Zhao, and Rahul Chatterjee. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P ‘22), 2022*.* IEEE DL

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Lightly-Reviewed Posters, Magazine Articles, and Companion Publications

• The Digital Evidence Gap: Proving Technology-Facilitated Abuse. Sophie Stephenson, Kayleigh Cowan, Rahul Chatterjee, and Ryan Poe-Gavlinski. Forthcoming in Wisconsin Lawyer (November 2026), the Official Publication of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
• Investigating Legal Professionals' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Technology-Enabled Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence. Robin Koshelev, Jiaxun Cao, Danielle Kim Park, Marvin Tai, Pardis Emami-Naeini, and ****Sophie Stephenson. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Late-Breaking Work (CHI LBW), 2025. ACM DL
• ACM CCS Young Scholars Development Program. F. Betül Durak, Fengjun Li, and Sophie Stephenson. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025. ACM DL
• Poster: A Case Study on Legal Evidence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Wisconsin. Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Akhil Polamarasetty, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Rose Ceccio, Kayleigh Cowan, Alexandra Zinkus, and Rahul Chatterjee. **Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024. Poster Abstract **
• Sneaky Spy Devices and Defective Detectors The Ecosystem of Intimate Partner Surveillance with Covert Devices. Rose Ceccio, Sophie Stephenson, Danny Huang, and Rahul Chatterjee ****USENIX ;login:, 2023. Online **