CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

Sonia Chiasson

SOUPS 2011

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We've just returned from another successful SOUPS conference. It was once again held at CMU this year and it was a mix of old and new, with parts of the conference held in their new Computer Science building and other parts held in familiar locations that we all know to be part of SOUPS. Robert and I held a tutorial on experimental design and statistics using R. We were happy for our ISSNet friends at UBC who won this year's Best Paper award for their work on Heuristics for IT security … [Read more...] about SOUPS 2011

ISSNet Summer School in Calgary

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Last week was the ISSNet summer school, held at the University of Calgary this year. A day and a half was dedicated to information visualization. Sheelagh Carpendale gave a general introduction to the field of visualization and Robert Biddle presented about security visualizations in particular. Hands-on activities had everything testing their drawing skills as they came up with potential visualizations for datasets. … [Read more...] about ISSNet Summer School in Calgary

Shad Valley workshop

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On Thursday afternoon, our lab hosted a group of high school students who were taking part in Shad Valley on campus. Shad Valley is a month-long enrichment summer camp for for highly motivated and successful high school students. Through presentations and hands-on activities in the workshop, students learned about multitouch, eye-tracking, and haptic technologies and were introduced to research in usable security. … [Read more...] about Shad Valley workshop

GRAND 2011 Conference

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We've recently returned from beautiful Vancouver for the 2nd Annual GRAND Conference.  We are part of projects on "Usable Privacy and Security for New Media Environments" and "Digital Games for Learning and Training". It was an opportunity to discuss on-going projects, get feedback from others in different disciplines, talk about research priorities, and plan for the next year. … [Read more...] about GRAND 2011 Conference

Hands-on session on user interaction technologies

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On May 6, we hosted grade 8-9 students from Ottawa in our lab for a session on user interaction technologies as part of Carleton's Enrichment Mini-Courses. Students learned about the technologies and got hands-on experience with multitouch tables, a haptic device, an eye tracker, a head-mounted display, and a digital pen. … [Read more...] about Hands-on session on user interaction technologies

ISSNet Annual Workshop

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We spent a week in Toronto for the ISSNet Annual Workshop.  We heard updates on recent work on research projects in all three themes (Network-oriented Security, Software Systems-oriented Security, Human-oriented Security) and had plenty of opportunity to catch up and discuss research with members from other Universities and industry partners. Students presented posters of their on-going research projects.  Invited talks by Nart Villeneuve from Trend Micro and by N. Asokan and Valtteri Niemi from … [Read more...] about ISSNet Annual Workshop

Back from FC’11

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We just returned from Financial Cryptography '11 in St. Lucia. I was pleasantly surprised to see that several of the papers addressed human factors and usable security. Our workshop on Authentication was well-attended and generated lots of questions and discussion between attendees and panelists. And in between, I managed to get in lots of scuba diving. A great trip overall.   … [Read more...] about Back from FC’11