
Kyle Crichton
Kyle is a PhD Researcher in the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on how people browse the internet, predicting exposure to malicious content, and protecting user privacy online.
Most Recent Publication:
Kyle Crichton, Nicolas Christin, and Lorrie Faith Cranor. 2021. How Do Home Computer Users Browse the Web? ACM Trans. Web 16, 1, Article 3 (February 2022). https://doi.org/10.1145/3473343
Email:
crichton@cmu.edu
Mailing Address:
Carnegie Mellon University
CIC 2222E
4720 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Recent News and Research
Our most recent publication that examines how people browse the internet. We identify major changes in browsing patterns over the past two decades, observe that users today spend over 50% of their time on a mere 32 different websites, and examine how users get to low-visited periphery sites.
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Our current research that uses patterns in people's web browsing to accurately predict when they are about to land on a malicious web page. We reproduced our results across two disparate browsing datasets, one from users in the United States and another from those in Japan.
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This study examines how the method of conducting an online interview can bias the data that is collected. We find that interview mode does not substantially affect the interview data and the observed differences primarily relate to logistics.
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