CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

Sonia Chiasson

PST 2010

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Last week, IEEE's Privacy, Security, Trust conference (PST) was held here in Ottawa. The talks were an interesting mix ranging from very technical to public policy topics. I taught a half-day tutorial introducing usable security and how to run usability evaluations. We had a paper on using eye-gaze as a tool to predict likely click-based graphical password click-points: Guessing Click-Based Graphical Passwords by Eye Tracking (2010). Daniel LeBlanc, Alain Forget, Robert Biddle. … [Read more...] about PST 2010

ISSNet Summer School

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After SOUPS, we went directly to Vancouver for the 2nd annual ISSNet Summer School held at UBC.  We had a week of tutorials on different security topics, with lots of opportunity to get to know the other members of ISSNet. Our UBC hosts were great, and organized lots of social events around the technical program. … [Read more...] about ISSNet Summer School

SOUPS and USER at Microsoft

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SOUPS and USER were hosted at Microsoft in Redmond, WA this week. It was great to see everyone again and meet new people working in usable security. Our workshop went well, we were lucky to have several interesting papers/talks and great experts for the panel. I like SOUPS, authors of papers seem to really engage in trying to balance or increase both usability and security.  We had a couple of posters, Alain presented one about our recent CHI paper, and I presented one about our MVP framework … [Read more...] about SOUPS and USER at Microsoft

Shad Valley workshop

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Each summer, Carleton hosts a group of high school students for Shad Valley’s summer enrichment program in sciences, engineering, technology and entrepreneurship. We held a half-day workshop in our lab for some of the students interested in HCI. Students imagined new applications as they learned about multitouch tabletop technologies, pretended to be attackers as they learned about usable security, and thought of new authentication mechanisms as they tried out the haptic input device. … [Read more...] about Shad Valley workshop

USER workshop deadline

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The deadline for submissions to both SOUPS workshops has been extended to May 17. The USER workshop focuses on methodology and analysis issues in running usable security studies.  If you have experiences with user studies that you'd like to share, consider submitting a short paper. Details of the USER workshop are available on the SOUPS website. … [Read more...] about USER workshop deadline

PST 2010 Tutorial on Usable Security

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The 2010 Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST) conference will be held in Ottawa this year, August 17 - 19.  I will be giving a half-day tutorial on Usable Security. The tutorial will consist of two parts: Part 1 covers an overview of Usable Security, presents relevant design principles, highlights areas where Usable Security differs from standard human-computer interaction, and discusses active research areas. Part 2 includes heuristic evaluations, cognitive walk-throughs, and different … [Read more...] about PST 2010 Tutorial on Usable Security

CHI 2010 in Atlanta

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Last week several members of our lab were in Atlanta for CHI 2010.  It was a great conference as usual, with nearly 2400 attendees, lots of fun demos, and interesting talks.  Elizabeth earned 3rd place in the undergraduate Student Research Competition (Yaaay Elizabeth!). Alain's talk and poster presentations went very well too.  We made it back to Ottawa safely, glad that our flights were not affected by the volcano.     … [Read more...] about CHI 2010 in Atlanta