Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Project
How aware are students of their risks and vulnerabilities online? In this research paper, we shined a light on both sides of the coin. A questionnaire indexes the state of awareness and trust levels of students. The other aspect of this research paper is that thousands and thousands of websites have been, non-invasively, analyzed and scanned on the trackers it uses. Websites of all universities of the world and a more than thousand popular websites have been indexed, analyzed and scrutinized in this research paper.
Abstract—In this research, the awareness of students and their
expected risks on third party tracking is determined. Alongside,
there will be looked into the amount of trackers on websites
and a comparison of countries and universities using the top
lists of Alexa and Tranco. This is done by the use of a survey
and a crawling script. The crawling script found that there are
fewer trackers used on university websites then regular websites.
Especially German universities seemed to not use third party
tracking. In general, higher educational sector websites used
fewer trackers. The survey found that German students tend to
be more sceptical than Dutch students about security and sharing
information online. Dutch students feel safer and are more willing
to share information online. German students proved to have a
good foundation of knowledge about third party tracking and
securing their online environment. All in all, students showed to
be quite balanced in terms of risk awareness and judging whether
they are being tracked or not.
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Hybrid Worlds Project
The Olympic Games are widely known as a festive sport activity. However, every positive thing also has its drawbacks. In the case of Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it was a rather dark turn of events prior to the game. In order to make room for the stadiums, whole neighbourhoods were moved. With the construction of the stadiums, a few also died. This research paper shines a light on the dark events.
Abstract— During this project, an installation was built in order to visualize data regarding the human rights violations and social injustice of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. This installation focuses on visualizing the evictions of families from different favela areas (meaning Brazilian slums or shanty towns) to houses built on the other side of the city in the poorer neighbourhoods, in order to make room for the Olympic stadia zones and to ’clean’ the streets for the events. The installation is meant to show the impact of the evictions and the way they were handled. The visualization complimented the story through the use of a topographic map with geo-spatial features. Different data aspects were visualized, including the wage bill in Rio’s different Áreas de Planejamento, the pacifying police units’ presence in the city and the amount of displacements and newly built houses, as well as the migration patterns. The installation used the Rio case study to show the effects of hosting a mega sporting event on the local population of the host city in a (newly developed or developing) country. The installation was made interactive through the use of buttons that moved certain objects on the map, also displaying videos on screens around the installation, further immersing the viewer into the topic. The goals of the installation were defined and completed around the overall theme of ’sports’.