Ryan Watkins

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved

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Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper
Learning and educational technologies · 50% Usability and user experience research · 50%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computing education · 100%
Network and information security
1 paper
Privacy and data protection · 100%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Usability and user experience research
technology acceptance
0.912025
"It's been Lovely Watching you": Institutional Decision-Making on Online Proctoring Software · SP 2025
Privacy and data protection
surveillance
0.312025
"It's been Lovely Watching you": Institutional Decision-Making on Online Proctoring Software · SP 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

interview study · 2.6
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 "It's been Lovely Watching you": Institutional Decision-Making on Online Proctoring Software
abstract
Universities have adopted remote proctoring software to maintain academic integrity during invigilated online exams. The use of this software, however, has raised privacy, security, and ethical concerns, including surveillance of students' bedrooms, processing of student data, and racially biased monitoring. Additionally, this software can require substantial local computer permissions. Prior work has explored student and educator perceptions and use of this software, but there remains a gap in understanding how senior administrators decide to adopt (or not adopt) these tools at an institutional level. This paper presents the results of interviews with 20 university administrators from the U.S. and Australia towards understanding how and why their universities decided to centrally adopt (or not adopt) remote proctoring software. We find that academic governance processes included senior administrators, legal, and IT teams, even during the rush at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that students were sometimes structurally excluded from the process of adoption. We explore how administrators weighed the need for academic integrity against competing concerns about privacy, security, ethics, and long-term operational issues like cost. We find that universities adopted remote proctoring despite concerns about privacy and security, sometimes attempting to mitigate these concerns. As academia continues to explore hybrid learning, our research can guide institutions in the adoption of Educational Technologies and the assessment of student learning.
Elisa Shioji, Ani Meliksetyan, Lucy Simko, Ryan Watkins, Adam J. Aviv, Shaanan Cohney
SP4