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Tamir Mendel, Senior Lecturer

Tamir Mendel
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The Open University of Israel Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 43107, Israel
Email:tamirme@openu.ac.il

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Areas of Interest
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-AI Interaction
  • Human-Centered AI
  • Digital Health

Dr. Tamir Mendel is a Senior Lecturer in the Industrial Engineering and Management program, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Open University of Israel.

His work explores AI systems and their design through the lens of user experiences, perceptions, behavior, and decision-making across domains such as healthcare, privacy, information security, and finance, with an emphasis on responsible AI use.

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Tamir Mendel, Soumik Mandal, Oded Nov, and Batia Wiesenfeld. (2025). Who is Responsible, the Advisor or the AI? Understanding the Effects of Disclosing Advisors’ AI Use on Their Perceived Responsibility and AI Reliance. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), Article CSCW343. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757524

Tamir Mendel, Nina Singh, Devin M. Mann, Batia Wiesenfeld, and Oded Nov. (2025). Laypeople’s Use of and Attitudes Toward Large Language Models and Search Engines for Health Queries: Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27, e64290. https://doi.org/10.2196/64290

Tamir Mendel, Oded Nov, and Batia Wiesenfeld. (2024). Advice from a Doctor or AI? Understanding Willingness to Disclose Information Through Remote Patient Monitoring to Receive Health Advice. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), Article 386. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686925

Tamir Mendel, Roei Schuster, Eran Tromer, and Eran Toch. (2022). Toward Proactive Support for Older Adults: Predicting the Right Moment for Providing Mobile Safety Help. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6(1), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517249

Hadas Schwartz-Chassidim, Oshrat Ayalon, Tamir Mendel, Ron Hirschprung, and Eran Toch. (2020). Selectivity in Posting on Social Networks: The Role of Privacy Concerns, Social Capital, and Technical Literacy. Heliyon, 6(2), e03298.

Tamir Mendel and Eran Toch. (2019). My Mom was Getting this Popup: Understanding Motivations and Processes in Helping Older Relatives with Mobile Security and Privacy. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 3(4), Article 147. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369821

Zhiyuan Wan, Lingfeng Bao, Debin Gao, Eran Toch, Xin Xia, Tamir Mendel, and David Lo. (2019). AppMoD: Helping Older Adults Manage Mobile Security with Online Social Help. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 3(4), Article 154. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369819

Ron Hirschprung, Eran Toch, Hadas Schwartz-Chassidim, Tamir Mendel, and Oded Maimon. (2017). Analyzing and Optimizing Access Control Choice Architectures in Online Social Networks. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 8(4), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1145/3046676

Tamir Mendel and Eran Toch. (2023). Social Support for Mobile Security: Comparing Close Connections and Community Volunteers in a Field Experiment. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581183

Tamir Mendel, Debin Gao, David Lo, and Eran Toch. (2021). An Exploratory Study of Social Support Systems to Help Older Adults in Managing Mobile Safety. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI), Toulouse & Virtual, France. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. September 27–October 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472047

Tamir Mendel and Eran Toch. (2017). Susceptibility to Social Influence of Privacy Behaviors: Peer versus Authoritative Sources. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp. 581–593. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998323