Karen Sowon

According to our database, Karen Sowon authored at least 13 papers between 2018 and 2026.

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2026

A Cross-Country Evaluation of Sentiment Toward Digital Payment Systems in Africa.

Isabel Agadagba, Triphonia Kilasara, Takudzwa Tarutira, Noah Shumba, Nicolas Christin, Obigbemi Imoleayo Foyeke, Assane Gueye, Edith Luhanga, Alexander Rusero, Karen Sowon, Giulia Fanti

CoRR, April, 2026

My Money, Your Name: Challenges and Workarounds in ID-Required Mobile Money in East Africa.

Edith Talina Luhanga, Karen Sowon, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Giulia Fanti, Conrad Tucker, Assane Gueye

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

Design and Evaluation of Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Agent-Facilitated Mobile Money Services in Kenya.

Karen Sowon, Collins W. Munyendo, Lily Klucinec, Eunice Maingi, Gerald Suleh, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Giulia Fanti, Conrad Tucker, Assane Gueye

Proceedings of the Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, 2025

2024

The role of the community of purpose in maternal mHealth interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa context.

Karen Sowon, Priscilla Maliwichi, Wallace Chigona, Address Malata

Frontiers Digit. Health, 2024

The Role of User-Agent Interactions on Mobile Money Practices in Kenya and Tanzania.

Karen Sowon, Edith Luhanga, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Giulia Fanti, Conrad Tucker, Assane Gueye

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024

Demo: A Low-Cost Honeynet Infrastructure For Smishing Data Collection.

Bernard Odartei Lamptey, Assane Gueye, Mohammed Seidu, Edith Luhanga, Karen Sowon

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2024

2023

Cattle Identification Using Muzzle Images and Deep Learning Techniques.

Geoffrey Kimani, P. Oluwadara, P. Fashingabo, Moise Busogi, Edith Luhanga, Karen Sowon, L. Chacha

CoRR, 2023

User Experiences with Third-Party SIM Cards and ID Registration in Kenya and Tanzania.

Edith Luhanga, Karen Sowon, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Giulia Fanti, Conrad Tucker, Assane Gueye

CoRR, 2023

2022

How the information system utilization context may lead to unintended technology use: A case of a maternal mHealth intervention in Kenya.

Karen Sowon, Wallace Chigona

Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries., 2022

2021

Conceptualising Healthcare-Seeking as an Activity to Explain Technology Use: A Case of M-health.

Karen Sowon, Wallace Chigona

CoRR, 2021

Poster: A Scoping Review of Alternative Credit Scoring Literature.

Rebecca Njuguna, Karen Sowon

Proceedings of the COMPASS '21: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Virtual Event, Australia, 28 June 2021, 2021

2020

Trust in mHealth: How do Maternal Health Clients Accept and Use mHealth Interventions?

Karen Sowon, Wallace Chigona

Proceedings of the SAICSIT '20: Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 2020, 2020

2018

Smartphone Paradoxes in Working Mothers' Pursuit of Work-Life Balance.

Karen Sowon, Olga Sikhwari, Mphatso Nyemba-Mudenda, Wallace Chigona

Proceedings of the Locally Relevant ICT Research, 2018