Two new PhD students have joined CHORUS this fall: Sana Maqsood has returned after a year of industry work after her Masters. Sana was awarded a MITACS PhD Fellowship to work on a long-term research project with MediaSmarts. Reham M. Ebada has started at Carleton for the first time and has been awarded an Ontario Trillium Scholarship for international students demonstrating exceptionally high academic achievement. … [Read more...] about New lab members
Ahsan defends his MCS thesis
This afternoon, Ahsan Imran successfully defended his MCS thesis entitled A Comparison of Password Authentication between Children and Adults Congratulations Ahsan! … [Read more...] about Ahsan defends his MCS thesis
Dr. Gerardo
Today, Gerardo Reynaga successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled The Usability of Captchas on Mobile Devices. Congratulations Dr. Gerardo! … [Read more...] about Dr. Gerardo
SOUPS at Carleton
On July 22-24, we happily hosted approximately 180 attendees to this year's SOUPS conference in the River Building at Carleton. Photos of the conference are available here: http://tinyurl.com/soups-share1 and http://tinyurl.com/soups-share2 … [Read more...] about SOUPS at Carleton
SHAD activities
The SHAD high school students are on campus for the month of July again this year. The CHORUS and HOTSOFT labs hosted a group of students for a 3-hour hands-on workshop about HCI and usable security. Students tried out different technologies and had a chance to talk with grad students about their research. I also gave a one-hour lecture and Q&A session to all of the SHADs about online security and privacy. We talked about malware, passwords, protecting one's privacy, and mobile … [Read more...] about SHAD activities
new NSERC CREATE grant
The HCI program has received a $1.6M NSERC CREATE grant over 6 years to fund internships for students to gain industry experience and HCI skills. Lead by Professor Whitehead and other HCI researchers, the Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences (CLUE) project will provide hands-on training and opportunities for students to experience the usability evaluation process on real projects. … [Read more...] about new NSERC CREATE grant
Phishing paper available
Our paper, Why phishing still works: User strategies for combating phishing attacks, in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, is now available as a free download from Elsevier until August 3. http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1RB~V3pfaRP32X … [Read more...] about Phishing paper available
NSPW 2015 paper
We are happy to hear that our paper, Choose Your Own Authentication, was accepted for publication at NSPW 2015. Robert Biddle will be presenting the work at the conference in Twente, The Netherlands, in September. … [Read more...] about NSPW 2015 paper
SOUPS 2015 presentations
Michael Lutaaya will be presenting a SOUPS 2015 poster, Password Rehearsal Memory Games, describing his work on a quick game to help users memorize a randomly generated password. Michael worked on this project as a first year undergraduate researcher in the lab. PhD student Leah Zhang-Kennedy will be presenting a SOUPS 2015 poster entitled Geo-Phisher: The Design of a Global Phishing Trend Visualization Tool based on a project completed with Elias Fares, an HCI student. Their tool … [Read more...] about SOUPS 2015 presentations
SOUPS paper accepted
Our paper, entitled User Perceptions of Sharing, Advertising, and Tracking, was accepted at SOUPS 2015. Farah started this research while taking the Computer Security & Usability graduate course, then continued the work in the following months. She explores users' opinion and preferences of online behavioural advertising across a variety of websites and tracking prevention tools. … [Read more...] about SOUPS paper accepted