CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

Sonia Chiasson

MITACS article

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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

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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

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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

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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