Projects

Current Academic Projects

The Adoption of AI Assistants for Digital Privacy Education (Aug 2023 – Present)
Investigating the adoption of AI assistants to improve individuals’ knowledge of digital privacy policies and practices.
Designing effective digital privacy education tools that adopt AI assistants to promote transparency and improve people’s knowledge of ways to protect their digital privacy.
Designing Digital Privacy Education Interventions for Rural and Urban Older Adults (Jan 2022 – Present)
Identifying digital privacy education needs of rural and urban-dwelling older adults and designing effective digital privacy education interventions that promote transparency in these populations.
Funded by Meta People’s Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy Research Award.
Reverse Stereotyping Study (Aug 2021 – Present)
Examining whether exposure to positive exemplars from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups can mitigate existing interconnected racial and gender biases through a motivational speech application.
Partially funded by Clemson University Human Factors Institute director’s award.
Social Media Post Translation: User’s Preferences of Control (Aug 2021– Present)
Examining the impact of increasing transparency and control for social media users in regard to the translation of their posts, with the goal of determining if such measures can enhance trust in the accuracy and reliability of automated machine translation.
The Effect of Privacy Fatigue on Privacy Decision-Making Behavior (Jan 2023 - Present)
Exploring the effect of privacy fatigue that results from the constant demands to manage privacy settings and make extensive decisions about whether to disclose personal data, as well as the impact on privacy decision-making behavior in the digital environment.

Previous Academic Projects

Promoting Human Interpretation and Interaction to Mitigate Bias in AI-Assisted Decision Aids (Jan 2023 – May 2023)
Designed and developed multiple variations of intelligent user-interfaces for decision aid dashboards that utilize user interaction and interpretation to mitigate AI decision making bias.
Funded by Office of Naval Research Research ONR grant
AirHeart study: ”Investigating the Effect of Personalization in a Mental Health App on Depressive Symptoms (Jan 2022 – May 2022)
Investigate the effect of app feature personalization, including avatar customization and naming, on depressive symptoms in mental health apps
Mobile Health Applications for End Users award in the Design Competition in conjunction with the 2023 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care.
M.Sc. Thesis: ”A New Hybrid Model for Movement Control of Upper Limb Prostheses in Brain Computer Interface Systems” (Oct 2017 – Jul 2018)
Proposed a Hybrid Brain Computer Interface BCI system that integrates EEG and EMG signal processing with machine learning models to efficiently improve classification accuracy and increase the control performance of different upper limb movements for above elbow amputees.
Proposed a new deep learning model using Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) to investigate the efficiency of deep learning in hybrid BCI systems to classify hand and wrist movements.
A Smart Control of Upper Limb Prosthetic Arms (April 2018 – May 2018)
A robotic arm used as upper limb prosthesis to help upper limb amputees to restore their arm functions.The robotic arm was tested on hand, wrist and elbow movements.
B.SC. Thesis: PHARMAROID: A Mobile Enabled Robot Pharmacist (Oct 2015 – Jul 2016)
Developed a smart pharmacy system with a mobile app that allows users to order medicines. The system includes a server to process requests and a robotic pharmacist designed to identify, pick, and dispense the correct medications from a smart storage system.
Best Student Poster Paper in the 2016, 33rd National Radio Science Conference.

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Name
Heba Aly
Email
haly@clemson.edu
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