Publications

2026

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.
"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 ‘26).
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 ‘26). 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 ‘26). 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. ACM DL 📰 Coverage: [UW Madison](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lP5ngfT_M>) 🏅 Honorable Mention for Best Paper
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 ‘25)*. ACM DL
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 ‘25). ACM DL
ACM CCS Young Scholars Development Program. F. Betül Durak, Fengjun Li, and Sophie Stephenson. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘25). 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 ‘24)*. ACM DL
📰 Coverage: [UW Madison](<https://cdis.wisc.edu/stephensons-research-highlights-tiktok-sharenting-privacy-concerns/>)
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 ‘24). Poster Abstract **

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. Webpage