Last week, PhD student Sana Maqsood presented her research at the 2018 SERENE-RISC Annual Workshop. She won the Best Poster Award for her work on an educational game to teach tweens about digital literacy. Congratulations Sana! … [Read more...] about Sana wins Best Poster award
Hala awarded medal
We found out today that Hala Assal has been awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for this fall convocation. https://carleton.ca/convocation/medals-awards/ Hala defended her PhD this summer and is currently a postdoc at uOttawa. Congratulations Hala! … [Read more...] about Hala awarded medal
Daniela presents at CCS 2018
PhD student Daniela Napoli presented a poster at ACM CCS 2018 in Toronto. She discussed her work on usability issues hindering the accessibility of SSL warnings for visually impaired users. … [Read more...] about Daniela presents at CCS 2018
Sonia presents at Conference Board of Canada
Today, Sonia gave an invited talk about some of the lab's research and lessons relating to fostering a security mindset within organizations at the Conference Board of Canada's Centre for National Security Building a Security Culture conference. … [Read more...] about Sonia presents at Conference Board of Canada
Yomna defends her Master’s thesis
Yomna successfully defended her master's thesis a couple of weeks ago - Congratulations! Her thesis is on Responsibility, trust, and monitoring tools for end-user account security. … [Read more...] about Yomna defends her Master’s thesis
SOUPS 2018 presentations
Hala, Reham, and Sonia attended SOUPS 2018 in Baltimore this week. Both presented work from their PhD theses. Hala talked about how software developers include security in the software development lifecycle. Reham talked about the concept of digital aging and ways to represent this on social media. Both papers are available on the USENIX website. Hala also presented her work on the motivators and deterrents to software security in the co-located WSIM workshop. … [Read more...] about SOUPS 2018 presentations
Dr. Hala
Hala Assal successfully defended her PhD thesis this week. Her thesis was entitled The Human Dimension of Software Security and Factors Affecting Security Processes. Congratulations Dr. Hala! … [Read more...] about Dr. Hala
Prof. Eddie Melcer gives talk
Prof. Eddie Melcer visited the Carleton and the CHORUS lab this week. On Wednesday, he helped out with the SHAD workshop. His game demo was a hit with students. On Thursday, he gave a talk to the CLUE and HCI students about ALT-CTRL: Bringing Embodied Physical Interactions into the Design of Games and Learning, where he talked about his research into using alternative input devices and physical interaction in learning games. Eddie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational … [Read more...] about Prof. Eddie Melcer gives talk
SHAD 2018
The CHORUS lab once again participated in the SHAD program for high school students at Carleton by hosting two events. On July 18, Sonia gave a one-hour talk about Exploring cyber threats and protection strategies. And on July 25, we hosted a half-day workshop about HCI. Current and former CHORUS grad students, grad students from the Hotsoft and CIL labs, and visiting Prof. Melcer led hands-on demos for the SHAD students. Students visited 9 different stations, each demonstrating a unique … [Read more...] about SHAD 2018
IJCCI paper accepted
Our paper entitled An Exploration of Graphical Password Authentication for Children has recently been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. Former student Ahsan Imran conducted the study as part of his Master's, and PhD student Hala Assal conducted more in-depth analysis and prepared the work for publication. … [Read more...] about IJCCI paper accepted