We are currently looking for people to work on a web-based serious game about computer security. If you think you have the required software design and programming skills, please contact me. … [Read more...] about Looking for game programmer
ACSAC paper now available
The camera-ready version of our upcoming ACSAC 2010 paper is now available. … [Read more...] about ACSAC paper now available
ACSAC 2010 paper
We recently received the good news that our paper on "Exploring Usability Effects of Increasing Security in Click-based Graphical Passwords" was accepted at ACSAC 2010. Elizabeth will be presenting it in Texas in December. A copy of the final ACSAC version of the paper will be posted shortly. … [Read more...] about ACSAC 2010 paper
PST 2010
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
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
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
SOUPS and USER next week
We're heading to Redmond, WA for SOUPS and the USER workshop in a few days. Come say hello if you're there too! … [Read more...] about SOUPS and USER next week
Shad Valley workshop
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
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
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