Heather Richter Lipford

Full Professor, Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Joined

May 2026

Names

Heather Richter Lipford (Preferred)

Heather Lipford

Heather Richter

Emails

****@uncc.edu (Confirmed)

****@charlotte.edu (Confirmed)

****@uncc.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (uncc.edu)

2005 – Present

PhD student

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

1998 – 2005

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Gregory D. Abowd

Present

Expertise

usable security

IoT privacy

social media privacy

Present

application security

developer studies

Present

Publications

Growing Together for Digital Safety: Examining the Effects of Group Formation and Engagement in Building Privacy and Security Efficacy CSCW018
Jess Kropczynski, Mamtaj Akter, Amir Reza Asadi, Hanna Alzughbi, Jinkyung Katie Park, Heather Richter Lipford, Pamela J. Wisniewski
- Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond the Legal Lens: A Sociotechnical Taxonomy of Lived Privacy Incidents and Harms
Kirsten Chapman, Garrett Smith, Kaitlyn Klabacka, Harrison Winslow, Louise Barkhuus, Cori Faklaris, Sauvik Das, Pamela J. Wisniewski, Bart Piet Knijnenburg, Heather Lipford, Xinru Page
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
An Exploration on Sharing Smart Home Devices Beyond the Home.
Abhiditya Jha, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Richter Lipford, Pamela J. Wisniewski
- IUI Workshops 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Mi Casa es Su Casa ("MiSu"): A Mobile App for Sharing Smart Home Devices with People Outside The Home.
Leena Alghamdi, Mamtaj Akter, Cristobal Sepulveda Cardenas, Diego A. Cruces, Jason Wiese, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford, Pamela J. Wisniewski
- CSCW Companion 2022
- Readers: Everyone
CO-oPS: A Mobile App for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security.
Mamtaj Akter, Leena Alghamdi, Dylan Gillespie, Md. Nazmus Sakib Miazi, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford, Pamela J. Wisniewski
- CSCW Companion 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Future of Human-Centered Privacy (Dagstuhl Seminar 25261)
Zinaida Benenson, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Heather Richter Lipford, William Seymour
- Dagstuhl Reports 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Proof-of-TBI - Fine-Tuned Vision Language Model Consortium and OpenAI-o3 Reasoning LLM-Based Medical Diagnosis Support System for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Prediction
Ross Gore, Eranga Bandara, Sachin Shetty, Alberto E. Musto, Pratip Rana, Ambrosio Valencia-Romero, Christopher K. Rhea, Lobat Tayebi, Heather Richter, Atmaram Yarlagadda, Donna Edmonds, Steven Wallace, Donna K. Broshek
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Examining Caregiving Roles to Differentiate the Effects of Using a Mobile App for Community Oversight for Privacy and Security
Mamtaj Akter, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford, Pamela J. Wisniewski
- Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. 2025
- Readers: Everyone
CO-oPS: A Mobile App for Community Oversight of Privacy and Security
Mamtaj Akter, Leena Alghamdi, Dylan Gillespie, Md. Nazmus Sakib Miazi, Jess Kropczynski, Heather Lipford, Pamela J. Wisniewski
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

A. K. M. Najmul Islam
Abdulmajeed Alqhatani
Abhiditya Jha
Akond Rahman
Alberto E. Musto
Alena Naiakshina
Alex Godwin
Alex Nielsen
Alisa Frik
Amanda Chaffin
Ambrosio Valencia-Romero
Amir Reza Asadi
Amy J. Godfrey
Andrew Besmer
Andrew Skaggs
Anna Stubler
Atmaram Yarlagadda
Audrey Rorrer
Awais Rashid
Bart P. Knijnenburg
Bart Piet Knijnenburg
Bei-Tseng Chu
Bei-tseng Chu
Bill Chu
Binata Roy

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