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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of education and led to increased usage of remote proctoring tools that are designed to monitor students when they take assessments outside the classroom. While prior work has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-28 David G. Balash , Rahel A. Fainchtein , Elena Korkes , Miles Grant , Micah Sherr , Adam J. Aviv

Online proctoring systems (OPS) are technologies and services that are used to monitor students during an online exam to deter cheating. However, OPS often violates student privacy by implementing overly intrusive surveillance to which…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Monika Blue Kwapisz , Yoav Ackerman , Jennifer Nguyen , Prashanth Rajivan

Educators are rapidly switching to remote proctoring and examination software for their testing needs, both due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the expanding virtualization of the education sector. State boards are increasingly utilizing these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ben Burgess , Avi Ginsberg , Edward W. Felten , Shaanan Cohney

This article philosophically analyzes online exam supervision technologies, which have been thrust into the public spotlight due to campus lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing demand for online courses. Online exam…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Simon Coghlan , Tim Miller , Jeannie Paterson

Online exams have become widely used to evaluate students' performance in mastering knowledge in recent years, especially during the pandemic of COVID-19. However, it is challenging to conduct proctoring for online exams due to the lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Haotian Li , Min Xu , Yong Wang , Huan Wei , Huamin Qu

Online exams are more attractive after the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, during recruitment, online exams are used. However, there are more cheating possibilities for online exams. Assigning a proctor for each exam increases cost. At this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Mert Ege , Mustafa Ceyhan

For high-stakes online exams, it is important to detect potential rule violations to ensure the security of the test. In this study, we investigate the task of detecting whether test takers are looking away from the screen, as such behavior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yong-Siang Shih , Zach Zhao , Chenhao Niu , Bruce Iberg , James Sharpnack , Mirza Basim Baig

Remote proctoring technology, a cheating-preventive measure, often raises privacy and fairness concerns that may affect test-takers' experiences and the validity of test results. Our study explores how selectively obfuscating information in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Suvadeep Mukherjee , Verena Distler , Gabriele Lenzini , Pedro Cardoso-Leite

Privacy is one of the key challenges to the adoption and implementation of online proctoring systems in higher education. To better understand this challenge, we adopt privacy as contextual integrity theory to conduct a scoping review of 17…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mutimukwe Chantal , Han Shengnan , Viberg Olga , Cerratto-Pargman Teresa

Online proctoring has become a necessity in online teaching. Video-based crowd-sourced online proctoring solutions are being used, where an exam-taking student's video is monitored by third parties, leading to privacy concerns. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Waheeb Yaqub , Manoranjan Mohanty , Basem Suleiman

Online exams conducted via video conferencing platforms such as Zoom have become widespread, yet ensuring exam integrity remains challenging due to the difficulty of monitoring multiple video feeds in real time. We present iExam, an online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xu Yang , Juantao Zhong , Daoyuan Wu , Xiao Yi , Jimmy H. M. Lee , Tan Lee , Peng Han

Except for the traditional threat that candidates may want to cheat, exams have historically not been seen as a serious security problem. That threat is routinely thwarted by having invigilators ensure that candidates do not misbehave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Rosario Giustolisi

Due to the precautionary measures during the COVID-19 pandemic many universities offered unproctored take-home exams. We propose methods to detect potential collusion between students and apply our approach on event log data from take-home…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Janine Langerbein , Till Massing , Jens Klenke , Natalie Reckmann , Michael Striewe , Michael Goedicke , Christoph Hanck

Cheating in online exams has become a prevalent issue over the past decade, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this issue of academic dishonesty, our "Exam Monitoring System: Detecting Abnormal Behavior in Online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Dinh An Ngo , Thanh Dat Nguyen , Thi Le Chi Dang , Huy Hoan Le , Ton Bao Ho , Vo Thanh Khang Nguyen , Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen

Educational technologies are revolutionizing how educational institutions operate. Consequently, it makes them a lucrative target for breach and abuse as they often serve as centralized hubs for diverse types of sensitive data, from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Easton Kelso , Ananta Soneji , Syed Zami-Ul-Haque Navid , Yan Soshitaishvili , Sazzadur Rahaman , Rakibul Hasan

Availing services provided via the Internet became a widely accepted means in organising one's life. Beside others, eLearning goes with this trend as well. But, while employing Internet service makes life more convenient, at the same time,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Katrin Borcea-Pfitzmann , Anne-Katrin Stange

The increased screen time and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a significant surge in cases of online grooming, which is the use of strategies by predators to lure children into sexual exploitation. Previous efforts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Khaoula Chehbouni , Martine De Cock , Gilles Caporossi , Afaf Taik , Reihaneh Rabbany , Golnoosh Farnadi

Multiple choice questions are at the heart of many standardized tests and examinations at academic institutions allover the world. In this paper, we argue that recent advancements in sensing and human-computer interaction expose these types…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Tasnia Ashrafi Heya , Abdul Serwadda , Isaac Griswold-Steiner , Richard Matovu

Distance education had existed for a long time, then it has undergone a renaissance with the advent of computers and the Internet. Distance education relied on physically delivered material and assessments to students, who work offline at…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Monther Aldwairi

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a strong effect on higher education institutions with the closure of classroom teaching activities. In this unprecedented crisis, of global proportion, educators and families had to deal with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fernando Almeida , José Monteiro
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