John Seberger, PhD

Seberger studies how apps and technology affect the people who use them. His research centers around the question of how technology can be designed to promote individual and collective dignity in inclusive and non-exploitative ways.

His expertise lies at the intersection of behavioral psychology, technology design and social computing. His work has delved into the proliferation of health surveillance apps during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenge this could pose for protecting information privacy. And his examinations of the effect of increasing frequency of app use on users’ expectation of information privacy tolerance of privacy-invasive apps were recognized as top papers in the field.

Seberger was a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State and completed his doctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine.