I will be giving a presentation on usable security to the industry group Association de Sécurité de l'Information du Montréal Métropolitain (ASIMM) on Monday September 19, 2011 at the Loews hotel in downtown Montreal. … [Read more...] about ASIMM presentation
E-Learn 2011
I will be attending E-Learn in October where I will present a brief paper on the initial design of our Auction Hero game to teach about online computer security, work done in collaboration with Manas Modi and Robert Biddle. While at the conference, I will also lead a roundtable discussion on uses of e-learning technologies for teaching computer security. … [Read more...] about E-Learn 2011
Inter-disciplinary Master’s of Human Computer Interaction
Carleton has a new inter-disciplinary Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction. Students can apply through the MCS, MASc, or MA streams. All students complete the same three core HCI courses along with stream-specific courses and complete a thesis. The first offering of the program begins in September 2011. If you are applying and would like to work with me, please send me an email. … [Read more...] about Inter-disciplinary Master’s of Human Computer Interaction
Honours or Graduate projects
I am looking for new graduate and undergraduate students interested in doing research human-computer interaction, usable security, and computer games. I am also able to supervise Honours projects on these subjects. If you are an existing Carleton student and are looking for a project or thesis topic in these areas, send me an email. … [Read more...] about Honours or Graduate projects
Usable security course
I will be teaching a graduate level usable security course in January 2012. It is now listed on the School's website and open for registration. The course number is COMP5900V. It meets the "A" or "E" requirements for SCS/OCICS grad students. … [Read more...] about Usable security course
SOUPS 2011
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
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
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
It’s official!
I have been offered and have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University, effective July 1, 2011. I am very happy for this opportunity and excited to get started in this new position. … [Read more...] about It’s official!
GRAND 2011 Conference
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