Piero Romare


Piero Romare is a PhD Student in Usable Privacy and Security at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden), supervised by prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner, co-supervised by prof. Morten Fjeld and Dr. Farzaneh Karegar funded by WASP Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program.

He obtained a bachelor degree in Cognitive Psychology at the Department of General Psychology and a master degree in Data Science at the Department of Mathematics from the University of Padua (Italy).

He has collaborated with SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group led by prof. Mauro Conti and with Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group at the University of Helsinki (Finland) led by prof. Giulio Jacucci.


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Research Interests

  • Usable Privacy in IoT Automated Applications on IFTTT tool
  • IoT Human-Centric Authentication on Earphones and Smart Glasses
  • Tangible Privacy on Smartphone and Smart Home

Publications

  • Andreas Tjeldflaat, Piero Romare, Yuki Onishi, Morten Fjeld, and Bjørn Sætrevik. "A Two-Week In-the-Wild Study of Screen Filters and Camera Sliders for Smartphone Privacy in Public Spaces" In Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’26), ACM, March 08–11, 2026, Chicago, IL, USA [paper][video]
  • Romare, Piero. "A User-Centric Approach to Usable Privacy for IoT Trigger-Action Platforms." Research Chalmers, Licentiate thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2025. [introduction]
  • Romare, Piero; Karegar, Farzaneh; Fischer-Hübner, Simone. "Towards Usable Privacy Management for IoT TAPs: Deriving Privacy Clusters and Preference Profiles" Under submission. [preprint]
  • Romare, Piero. "User-Driven Privacy Factors in Trigger-Action Apps: A Comparative Analysis with General IoT." Privacy and Identity Management - Sharing (in) a Digital World. 18th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2023. [paper]
  • Romare, Piero; Morel, Victor; Karegar, Farzaneh; Fischer-Hübner, Simone. "Tapping into Privacy: A Study of User Preferences and Concerns on Trigger-Action Platforms." 2023 20th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2023, pp. 1–12. [paper]
  • Carlucci, Mattia; Cecconello, Stefano; Conti, Mauro; Romare, Piero. "Eathentication: A Chewing-based Authentication Method." 2020 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), IEEE, Avignon, France, June 2020, pp. 1–9. [paper]

Patents

  • Conti, Mauro; Cecconello, Stefano; Romare, Piero; Carlucci, Mattia. "Method of Authenticating a User Through Analysis of Changes in the External Ear Canal." WIPO PCT/IB2021/050369, January 2021. [patent]
    (Video translated in English using AI automatic voice translator.)

Teaching

  • Object Oriented Programming (Chalmers University of Technology, 2024-current)
  • Advanced Programming in Python (Chalmers University of Technology, 2022-current)
  • Tangible Interaction (Chalmers University of Technology, 2022-current)
  • Introduction to Programming in Python (Chalmers University of Technology, 2022-2023)
  • Cognitive, Behaviour and Social Data (University of Padua, 2021-2022)

Posters and Presentations

AsiaCCS (Aug 2025) - Hanoi, Vietnam
Mitsubishi Information Technology Research Institute (Oct 2024) - Tokyo, Japan
Meiji University (Oct 2024) - Tokyo, Japan
CISPA Helmholtz Center (Jul 2024) - Saarbrücken, Germany
Lund University (May 2024) - Lund, Sweden
ETH Zürich (May 2024) - Zürich, Switzerland
WASP Winter Conference (Jan 2024) - Norrköping, Sweden [poster]
Chalmers University of Technology (Oct 2023) - Göteborg, Sweden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sept 2023) - Boston, USA
University of Pittsburgh (Sept 2023), Pittsburgh, USA
RISE Stockholm (Sept 2023) - Stockholm, Sweden
Denmark Technical University (Aug 2023) - Copenhagen, Denmark
Oslo University (Aug 2023) - Oslo, Norway
Uppsala University (May 2023) - Uppsala, Sweden
University of Padua (May 2023) - Padua, Italy
Karlstad University (Nov 2022) - Karlstad, Sweden