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Graduate Research Assistant — Obfuscation Repository

Cornell Tech

With Helen Nissenbaum. Building obfuscation.tech.cornell.edu, an open repository of obfuscation strategies that teaches lay users to protect their data under pervasive surveillance and AI scraping, starting from the premise that the communication channel cannot be trusted.

Research Assistant

Center for Responsible AI at NYU

Worked on the 'University of Notre Dame - IBM' Technology Ethics Lab Grant Auditing AI Initiative on the project 'Expanding AI Audits to Include Instruments: Accountability, Measurements, and Data in Motion Capture Technology.'

• Collaborated with researchers from University of Michigan, Intel Labs, and New York University on an award-winning CHI publication
• Investigated bias in measurement standards for AI hardware
• Contributed to frameworks for auditing AI technologies

Graduate Research Assistant — Designer Decision-Making

Cornell Tech

With Qian Yang. One-semester grant on external pressures shaping designer decision-making, with a mental-health-technology focus.

Graduate Research Assistant — Human–AV Interaction

Cornell Tech

With Qian Yang. On-road studies of human–autonomous vehicle interaction and analysis of safety-critical data-sharing practices among AV companies. Fed into CSCW '25 and AutoUI/IEEE ITSC '24 publications.

Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science

Cornell Tech

Advised by Helen Nissenbaum (Chair) and Wendy Ju (Co-Chair); committee members Daniel Susser and Colin M. Gray (external). Research on designing for user and worker autonomy: how designers can tell legitimate machine influence from manipulation, and the methods and metrics that help them resist external pressures. Expected graduation: July 2027.

• Developing frameworks for responsible and efficient design innovation methodologies
• Researching approaches to empower designers to navigate external influences in user-centered design processes
• Exploring ethical considerations in technology design with a focus on societal impact

UX Technologist

Volkswagen Group Future Center

Led the design of inclusive user experiences for fully autonomous vehicles and developed next-generation driver interfaces. Involved in the creation and transformation of CARIAD.

• Improved User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) benchmarks by 30% over state-of-the-art through inclusive design approaches
• Developed and implemented a next-generation digital cockpit that improved accessibility of steering wheel functions without affecting driving performance
• Created high-fidelity AI prototypes using cutting-edge research papers and custom computer vision pipelines that were adopted for production development
• Conducted on-road studies for ambient in-cabin lighting systems that identified critical safety, comfort, and motion sickness factors for AV passengers
• Designed and prototyped LLM-based digital assistant interfaces for in-vehicle use, now in final stages before market release
• Established GDPR-compliant research practices that were adopted across the VW Group
• Successfully transferred multiple vision projects to strategy teams, with implementations adopted by Porsche, Skoda, and Audi

Intern & External Master Theses

Robert Bosch

Designed V2X interfaces and researched interfaces for autonomous vehicles tailored for older adults and disabled users.

• Conducted research on autonomous vehicle interfaces for older adults and people with disabilities
• Designed Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) interfaces for future mobility solutions

Student Researcher

ELIXIER

Conducted usability testing of multimodal and augmented workbenches for educational purposes and developed an AR manual for chemistry experiments.

External Bachelor Theses

100%FAT

Designed, developed, and evaluated a prototype for a touchless interactive showcase in the DesignLab Twente. The prototype was permanently installed in the Design Hall.

Student Teacher

Twente Academy

Taught upper secondary school pupils programming using the Arduino microprocessor.

Instructor, Ethical Vibe Coding

Cornell Tech

Three-week course on ethical AI-assisted coding for high school students at Cornell Tech's Summer Innovation Intensives. With Jonathan Segal and Wendy Ju.

Co-Instructor, Conscientious Tech Design Workshop

Cornell Tech

Co-designed and co-facilitated an 8-week ethics workshop for Siegel PiTech PhD Impact Fellows using the Values at Play framework; operationalized the framework into collaborative whiteboard activities and assignments (pitechethics.github.io). With Helen Nissenbaum.

Teaching Assistant in UX & User Research

Cornell Tech

Assisted in teaching a master's level course focused on the UX lifecycle and user research methods. With Shiri Azenkot.

Co-host NYC Privacy Day

Cornell Tech

Managed the website, sign-ups, and the poster and demo track for NYC Privacy Day, an initiative between privacy research institutes in the NYC area.

Hybrid Chair

CHIWORK 2026

Chairing hybrid participation and infrastructure for the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work.

Teaching Assistant in Privacy in the Digital Age

Cornell Tech

Head TA in master level privacy class. Led assignments, in-class privacy policy exercise and a lecture on usable privacy. With Helen Nissenbaum and Vitaly Shmatikov.

Teaching Assistant in Interactive Device Design

Cornell Tech

Head TA in master level prototyping class. Maintained project code repository, labs, and oversaw grading. Updated the class for AI-codesign of technology; in Fall 2025 built WendyTA, an LLM-based teaching assistant for student projects. With Wendy Ju.

ISGSA Liaison

Cornell University

Information Science Graduate Student Association Liaison for NYC to Ithaca campus collaboration.

Teaching Assistant in HCI Design

Cornell University

Assisted in teaching undergraduate and master level course in human computer interaction. Oversaw grading and individual sections. With Gilly Leshed.

Course Development, Deep Learning (CS 5787)

Cornell Tech

Prepared class material with Hadar Averbuch-Elor: revised assignments and homework for student use of generative AI tools, and built a pipeline that generates final-exam questions resistant to AI-assisted answers.

Member

We Drive Proud

Member of the VW network to advocate being out at work.

Reviewer

Peer Review

Peer reviewer at FAccT, CHI, DIS, AutoUI, CSCW, MuC, and CHIwork.

M.Sc.

Cornell University, Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Information Science

M.Sc.

Bauhaus Universität Weimar

Human-Computer Interaction

Semester Abroad

Czech Technical University

Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

B.Sc.

Universiteit Twente

Creative Technology

Abitur

Gymnasium im Schloss

Science Branch (STEM)

Public Interest Responsible Technology Fund

Cornell Tech

Teaching grant to instruct a PhD-fellow cohort on value-centered design methods.

Backslash Microgrant

Backslash at Cornell Tech

Art and technology microgrant for the interactive installation 'App Design as a Commodity', a receipt printer that sells AI-built apps for Venmo change.

DLI Doctoral Fellow

Cornell Tech

The Digital Life Initiative supports examining the complexities and tensions present in digital technologies involving ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life.

Siegel Public Interest Technology Impact Fellowship

Cornell Tech

Funded to work for not-for-profit organization YAI. YAI is one of the largest organizations in the U.S. providing children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) a comprehensive range of services.

Thesis of the Year

Universiteit Twente

Selected by jury to speak at graduation ceremony. Bachelor thesis presented on behalf of the creative technology program. In 2026, he won the prestigious $5,000 NYC Privacy Day Award for his groundbreaking contributions to resistance techniques through LLM obfuscation.

“Nobody Did This”: Contribution, Originality, and Accountability in Agent-Mediated Collaboration

Proceedings of the 2026 Companion of the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Workshop co-organizer)

Imteyaz, K., Rifat, M. R., Ramesh, D., Rick, S. R., Hosio, S., Sandhaus, H., Sarkar, A., Riedl, C., Savage, S.

Context and Symmetry in Auditing: A Case Study of Skeleton Inference in Motion Capture

Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '26)

Harvey, E., Moss, E., Sandhaus, H., Jacobs, A. Z., Sloane, M.

Visible Adoption, Untracked Contribution: GitHub Evidence of the Accountability Gap Across Three Cohorts of an HCI Prototyping Course

CHIWORK '26: Adjunct Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (Workshop paper at CHIWORK '26 (workshop I co-organized))

Parreira, M. T., Sinha, P. P., Sandhaus, H., Ju, W.

Interrogating GenAI Augmentation for CHIworkers: Strategies for Professional Autonomy and Accountability

CHIWORK '26: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (Workshop) (Workshop co-organizer)

Sandhaus, H., Imteyaz, K., Almutairi, M., Prajod, P., Ramesh, D., Savage, S., Yang, Q., Muller, M.

Making Indecent Persuasion Visible: How Evaluation Metrics Shape UX Designers' Ethical Reasoning

CHIWORK '26: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (Late-Breaking Work) (Best Late-Breaking Work Award at CHIWORK '26 (1 of 25))

Sandhaus, H., Rhomberg, D. M., Nissenbaum, H.

Bridge Over Troubled Water: Aligning Commercial Incentives With Ethical Design Practice To Combat Deceptive Patterns

Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Workshop co-organizer)

Eßmeyer, T., Gunawan, J., Gray, C. M., Chamorro, L. S., Roffarello, A. M., Seaborn, K., Sandhaus, H., Lukoff, K., Savino, G., Chivukula, S. S., Nakamura, S.

Deception Is Ugly: Linking Aesthetic Judgment to Perceived Manipulation in Dark Patterns

Zeitschrift für Psychologie (Accepted, forthcoming)

Sandhaus, H., Rhomberg, D. M.

The Privacy Policy Analysis Canvas: An Ethics Thinking Activity for Teaching Privacy Policy Insufficiency

Poster at NYC Privacy Day 2025, Cornell Tech, New York, NY (Non-archival poster; write-up unpublished)

Sandhaus, H., Nissenbaum, H.

My Precious Crash Data: Barriers and Opportunities in Encouraging Autonomous Driving Companies to Share Safety-Critical Data

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Sandhaus, H., Hwang, A. H., Ju, W., Yang, Q.

Co-Designing with Transformers: Unpacking the Complex Role of GenAI in Interactive System Design Education

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Sandhaus, H., Gu, Q., Parreira, M. T., Ju, W.

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Franchi*, M., Sandhaus*, H., Choksi, M. Z., Engelmann, S., Ju, W., Nissenbaum, H. (* = equal contribution)

Regaining Trust: Impact of Transparent User Interface Design on Acceptance of Camera-Based In-Car Health Monitoring Systems

Adjunct Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Sandhaus, H., Choksi, M. Z., Ju, W.

Changing Lanes Toward Open Science: Openness and Transparency in Automotive User Research

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Ebel, P., Bazilinskyy, P., Colley, M., Goodridge, C. M., Hock, P., Janssen, C. P., Sandhaus, H., Srinivasan, A. R., Wintersberger, P.

Modeling Social Situation Awareness in Driving Interactions

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Klein, N., Sandhaus, H., Goedicke, D., Ju, W., Parush, A.

Characterizing Cultural Differences in Naturalistic Driving Interactions

2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)

Di Pirro, R., Sandhaus, H., Goedicke, D., Calderone, D., Oishi, M., Ju, W.

Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices

Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Workshop co-organizer; co-editor of the workshop proceedings, CEUR-WS Vol. 3720)

Gray, C. M., Gunawan, J. T., Schäfer, R., Bielova, N., Chamorro, L. S., Seaborn, K., Mildner, T., Sandhaus, H.

The Cadaver in the Machine: The Social Practices of Measurement and Validation in Motion Capture Technology

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI '24)

Harvey, E., Sandhaus, H., Jacobs, A. Z., Moss, E., Sloane, M.

Towards Quantifying Ethical User Experience: Evaluating User Perceptions of Dark Patterns in Social Media

Mobilizing Research and Regulatory Action on Dark Patterns and Deceptive Design Practices Workshop at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Rhomberg*, D. M., Sandhaus*, H. (* = equal contribution)

Student Reflections on Self-Initiated GenAI Use in HCI Education

LLMs as Research Tools Workshop at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Sandhaus, H., Parreira, M. T., Ju, W.

VR Job Interview Using a Gender-Swapped Avatar

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Kim*, J., Sandhaus*, H., Fussell, S. R. (* = equal contribution)

Exploring Interactions for Collaborative Driving in Fully Automated Vehicles

Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

von Sawitzky, T., Koniakowsky, I. M., Yan, Q., Sandhaus, H., Askari, A.

Breaking Barriers: Workshop on Open Data Practices in AutoUI Research

Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (Workshop co-organizer)

Ebel, P., Bazilinskyy, P., Hwang, A. H., Ju, W., Sandhaus, H., Srinivasan, A. R., Yang, Q., Wintersberger, P.

Towards Prototyping Driverless Vehicle Behaviors, City Design, and Policies Simultaneously

CHI '23 Workshop: Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously

Sandhaus, H., Ju, W., Yang, Q.

Promoting Bright Patterns

CHI '23 Workshop: Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously (This paper started the brightpatterns.org website)

Sandhaus, H.

A WOZ Study of Feedforward Information on an Ambient Display in Autonomous Cars

The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings

Sandhaus, H., Hornecker, E.

Smart Textiles in the Performing Arts

Textiles, Identity and Innovation: Design the Future

Martinez, A., Honauer, M., Sandhaus, H., Hornecker, E.

Development of a 3D Navigable Interface for a Touchless Showcase

Bachelor's thesis, University of Twente

Sandhaus, H.

Benevolent User Interface Design

• Created brightpatterns.org to catalog and promote benevolent design solutions by corporations, seemingly acting against their short-term best interest.
• Created the survey tool UEEQ.org to quantify ethical user experience metrics to evaluate interface design.

Enabling Appropriate Dataflows

• Developing onboarding flows to encourage transparent data sharing that enables AI models for societal good.
• Researching large scale dataset privacy risks on groups and developing frameworks to enable use of them through contextual integrity.

Responsible AI Innovation

• Encouraging regulatory sandboxing in high-risk domains to enable innovation with appropriate guardrails.
• Exploring how startups can prototype policy, business models, and technology simultaneously.

Modeling Human Driving Interaction

• Developing frameworks for autonomous vehicles with enhanced social capabilities.
• Researching human-machine interaction patterns for mixed-autonomy traffic scenarios.