Sana Maqsood's PhD is funded through a MITACS PhD Fellowship. MITACS recently released an article highlight Sana's research with MediaSmarts. It is available here and discusses A Day in the Life of the Jos, an online game to teach children about digital literacy, with a focus on cybersecurity and privacy. … [Read more...] about MITACS article
CHI2018 SRC
Three students from the lab have had their work accepted into the CHI 2018 Student Research Competition. They will present their work at CHI in Montreal at the end of April. Michael Lutaaya will present work from his undergraduate honours project, Rethinking App Permissions on iOS. Daniela Napoli will present on-going work from her Master's, Developing Accessible and Usable Security (ACCUS) Heuristics. Sana Maqsood will present on-going work from her PhD, Evaluation of a Persuasive … [Read more...] about CHI2018 SRC
eCampus Ontario grant
We are happy to report that we recently received a 1-year eCampus Ontario Digital Inclusion Research grant to support Daniela Napoli's Master's research on usable security and privacy of users with visual impairments. Her work explores the web-based barriers that screen-reader users face while identifying and managing digital threats. We will take a two-phase approach that includes an expert evaluation and a user study with visually impaired individuals. … [Read more...] about eCampus Ontario grant
CAN-CWIC 2017
Sana and Reham attended CAN-CWiC 2017 in Montreal on Nov 3-4. Both Reham and Sana presented posters about their PhD research; Reham's work is on digital aging of social media artifacts and Sana's work is on educating children about online privacy and security. Sana also gave a lighting talk about her work. … [Read more...] about CAN-CWIC 2017
lab members attend CANUX 2017
Several lab members attended the CANUX 2017 user experience conference on Nov 4-5, thanks to funding from the CLUE program. … [Read more...] about lab members attend CANUX 2017
Sonia presents at ISACA-Montreal
On November 1, Sonia gave an invited presentation at the ISACA-Montreal Annual Summit about the interaction between humans and cognitive technologies in cybersecurity. … [Read more...] about Sonia presents at ISACA-Montreal
Reham and Sana present at SERENE-RISC workshop
The SERENE-RISC Fall workshop was held at the end of October. Several students attended the event. PhD student Reham Mohamed presented a poster about her research and PhD student Sana Maqsood gave a research presentation to the Board of Directors. … [Read more...] about Reham and Sana present at SERENE-RISC workshop
Sonia presents at McMaster
Sonia gave an invited seminar on Achieving practical cybersecurity by acknowledging human users at the McMaster Department of Computing and Software on Oct 2. … [Read more...] about Sonia presents at McMaster
SERENE-RISC Cybercrime and SME workshop
On Aug 30, 2017, SERENE-RISC held its 3rd annual Cybercrime workshop, focusing this year on SMEs. It was held in Montreal, co-located with the GoSec Conference. … [Read more...] about SERENE-RISC Cybercrime and SME workshop
Hala presents at PST 2017
At the end of August, PhD student Hala Assal presented our paper entitled Cross-national privacy concerns on data collection by government agencies, by Rebecca Cooper, Hala Assal and Sonia Chiasson, at the Privacy, Security, and Trust 2017 Conference in Calgary. … [Read more...] about Hala presents at PST 2017