Johanna Gunawan
PhD Student
Education
- MS in Cybersecurity, Northeastern University
- Graduate Certificate in Computer Science, Northeastern University
- BA in Political Science and International Affairs, Northeastern University
Biography
Johanna Gunawan is a doctoral student at Northeastern University, advised by David Choffnes, Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, and Woodrow Hartzog between the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Northeastern School of Law. Her research focus intersects privacy, policy, consumer advocacy, and human-computer interaction – most recently she focuses on dark patterns and manipulative interfaces, and the legal implications of their use.
Before entering the program, Johanna pursued coursework in the cybersecurity graduate program and the ALIGN program while working full-time at Rapid7 and Akamai Technologies. She aims to continue exploring topics in privacy and legal scholarship that help protect people from abuses of their privacy rights and user agency.
Recent Publications
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A Comparative Study of Dark Patterns Across Mobile and Web Modalities
Citation: Johanna Gunawan, Amogh Pradeep, David Choffnes, Woodrow Hartzog, and Christo Wilson. "A Comparative Study of Dark Patterns Across Mobile and Web Modalities". Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), October, 2021. DOI: 10.1145/3479521 -
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Technology Trust Gap
Citation: Gunawan, Johanna and Choffnes, David and Hartzog, Woodrow and Wilson, Christo, The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Technology Trust Gap (April 28, 2021). 51 Seton Hall Law Review 1505 (2021)
