We are pleased to hear that our paper entitled When private and professional lives meet: The impact of digital footprints on employees and political candidates” by PhD students Reham Mohamed and Thais Bardini Idalino has been accepted at Social Media & Society 2017. We will be presenting the work at the conference in Toronto, July 28-30. … [Read more...] about Paper accepted at Social Media & Society 2017
Presenting an About the User lecture
Sonia will be presenting Eyetracking: insight into user behaviour as part of the 1125@Carleton About the User lecture series on March 15 … [Read more...] about Presenting an About the User lecture
Mentoring award
Sonia was awarded a Carleton 2016 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award, after nominations by her current and former students. The ceremony was held on March 1. … [Read more...] about Mentoring award
Designing Privacy for Real People Symposium
Sonia will present at this year's OPC Pathways to Privacy event: Designing Privacy for Real People Symposium at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, held on March 10. … [Read more...] about Designing Privacy for Real People Symposium
USEC 2017 presentation
On Feb 26, Borke presented her paper at USEC 2017 in San Diego. The paper was entitled Don’t Break My Heart!”: User Security Strategies for Online Dating, by Borke Obada-Obieh, Sonia Chiasson and Anil Somayaji. While at USEC, Sonia also presented on a panel about users' decision-making in relation to usable privacy and security. … [Read more...] about USEC 2017 presentation
Presenting at Digital Adoption Symposium
Sonia presented at the 2017 Digital Adoption Symposium - Securing Canada's Prosperity in a Digital World, hosted by the Digital Policy Forum. She was part of a panel on Meaningful Consumer Adoption Challenges and Solutions … [Read more...] about Presenting at Digital Adoption Symposium
HCIN5200 student research featured
Daniela Napoli's research on colour-blindness in games has been featured by Carleton: https://gradstudents.carleton.ca/2017/grad-research-impact-colour-blindness-online-gaming/ Daniela is a first year Masters student in the HCI program and was a student in HCIN5200 last semester. She conducted this research in the CHORUS lab as her finalcourse project. … [Read more...] about HCIN5200 student research featured
Leah’s PhD Proposal
Leah Zhang-Kennedy successfully defended her PhD proposal today. Her proposal is entitled Multimedia Approaches for Improving Children's Security and Privacy Knowledge and Persuading Behaviour Change. She will be wrapping up her work and will defend her thesis later this year. … [Read more...] about Leah’s PhD Proposal
USEC 2017 paper
We are pleased to announce that our paper “Don’t Break My Heart!": User Security Strategies for Online Dating has been accepted at USEC 2017. Borke will be presenting her work in San Diego next month. … [Read more...] about USEC 2017 paper
Sonia presents at Science Cafe
On January 11, Sonia presented to the general public at the Carleton Science Cafe held at the Sunnyside Public Library. Her presentation was about: Staying safe online: exploring cyber threats and protection strategies Why do users behave insecurely even though most will readily state that security and privacy are important? We will cover some of our recent research exploring reasons why users' actions do not necessarily reflect their desire for security and how the configuration of security … [Read more...] about Sonia presents at Science Cafe