CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

Conference

SERENE workshop

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The 2nd SERENE workshop, entitled "Cybersecurity metrics for better decision-making: a Canadian perspective", was held at the Ottawa Convention Centre Oct 21-22.  The event was sold out and attracted participants from several government departments, police forces, industry, and academics. The workshop featured several high-profile Canadian and International speakers that led to in-depth discussion by all involved.  The full program is now available on the SERENE website. … [Read more...] about SERENE workshop

SOUPS 2015 at Carleton

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Mark your calendars - SOUPS, the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, will be held at Carleton University July 22-24, 2015! This will be the first time that the event is hosted in Canada and we are very excited to welcome everyone to Ottawa next year. More details will be posted over the next few months as we sort out the details. … [Read more...] about SOUPS 2015 at Carleton

SOUPS 2014

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We've just returned from another great SOUPS conference. SOUPS 2014 marked the 10th year for the conference, which was held at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park this year. Shuja's master's work on gesture passwords for mobile devices was presented by Robert in the WAY workshop. Hala presented a poster on the usability of mobile apps for TOR. We are happy to announce that her poster, "Will this onion make you cry? A usability study of Tor-enabled mobile apps" won a Distinguished Poster … [Read more...] about SOUPS 2014

Leah presents at Persuasive Technology 2014

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We attended the annual Persuasive Technology conference in Padova, Italy. Leah presented three times during the conference about her visualization for security work. All of our infographics and comics relating to teaching about computer security and privacy are available at www.versipass.com/edusec/ She presented her paper, entitled "Stop clicking on “update later”, which provides an overview of her visualization research teaching users about malware and antivirus protection. She presented … [Read more...] about Leah presents at Persuasive Technology 2014

CHI 2014

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Several members of the lab attended CHI in Toronto this year. It was a super busy and interesting week, as CHI always is, and a great time to catch up with all of the HCI folks. Sana was selected to present a poster on part of her Masters thesis as part of the Student Research Competition. … [Read more...] about CHI 2014

CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop

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Masters students Sana Maqsood and Stephanie Hurtado have been selected to attend the 2014 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop in Santa Clara, California this April. Both Sana and Stephanie will be presenting posters showcasing some of their research. Sana's involves authentication on flexible displays and Stephanie's investigates the usable security of mobile encrypted chat tools. … [Read more...] about CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop

GRAND RNotes and posters

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Several members of our group will be presenting their research at the 2014 GRAND annual conference in May. Sana Maqsood has an RNote short paper on A First Exploration of a Gesture Based Authentication Scheme for Flexible Displays. Hala Assal has an RNote short paper on Tor for All: A Usability Study of Tor-enabled Mobile Apps. Leah Zhang-Kennedy and Christine Mekhail have a poster entitled Visualizations to Teach about Mobile Online Privacy. Vanessa Boothroyd has a poster entitled Older … [Read more...] about GRAND RNotes and posters