Hala Assal presented our paper What’s the deal with privacy apps? A comprehensive exploration of user perception and usability in Linz, Austria at the MUM 2015 conference . Hala took part in the Doctoral Consortium, presenting her work on collaborative security code reviews. … [Read more...] about MUM 2015 conference
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MUM2015 paper accepted
We are happy to hear that our paper: What’s the deal with privacy apps? A comprehensive exploration of user perception and usability by Hala Assal, Stephanie Hurtado, Ahsan Imran and Sonia Chiasson has been accepted at Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM). Hala will be presenting the work in Linz, Austria at the end of November. … [Read more...] about MUM2015 paper accepted
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
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
BHCI paper accepted
We are happy to announce that Gerardo Reynaga's paper, "Heuristics for the Evaluation of Captchas on Smartphones" has been accepted at British HCI 2015. Gerardo will be presenting his work at the conference in July. … [Read more...] about BHCI paper accepted
SERENE April 2015 workshop
The SERENE-RISC April workshop was held at the Museum of Nature this week. It brought together over a hundred industry, academic, and government participants interested in building a healthy, secure, Canadian digital ecosystem. … [Read more...] about SERENE April 2015 workshop
Stephanie presents poster at CRA-W
Stephanie Hurtado recently presented a work-in-progress poster about her thesis research on driver distraction at the CRA-Women Grad Cohort. The workshop was held in San Francisco, April 10-11. … [Read more...] about Stephanie presents poster at CRA-W
SERENE-RISC’s 2015 Spring Workshop
The SERENE-RISC 2015 Spring Workshop will take place in Ottawa on April 22 and 23. The workshop theme is “Cybersecurity futures: Toward a healthy digital ecosystem”. It aims to move beyond the usual catastrophic discourse on the impending breakdown of critical infrastructures provoked by malicious actors and state-sponsored attacks. Instead, we would like to frame the discussion around a more optimistic outlook trying to imagine what cybersecurity might look like ten years down the road if … [Read more...] about SERENE-RISC’s 2015 Spring Workshop