CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

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MITACS article

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Sana Maqsood's PhD is funded through a MITACS PhD Fellowship. MITACS recently released an article highlight Sana's research with MediaSmarts.  It is available here and discusses A Day in the Life of the Jos, an online game to teach children about digital literacy, with a focus on cybersecurity and privacy.   … [Read more...] about MITACS article

eCampus Ontario grant

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We are happy to report that we recently received a 1-year eCampus Ontario Digital Inclusion Research grant to support Daniela Napoli's Master's research on usable security and privacy of users with visual impairments.   Her work explores the web-based barriers that screen-reader users face while identifying and managing digital threats. We will take a two-phase approach that includes an expert evaluation and a user study with visually impaired individuals. … [Read more...] about eCampus Ontario grant

CAN-CWIC 2017

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Sana and Reham attended CAN-CWiC 2017 in Montreal on Nov 3-4.   Both Reham and Sana presented posters about their PhD research;  Reham's work is on digital aging of social media artifacts and Sana's work is on educating children about online privacy and security.  Sana also gave a lighting talk about her work.   … [Read more...] about CAN-CWIC 2017

Education game featured

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PhD student Sana Maqsood and former Masters student Christine Mekhail have been working on an educational game about  cybersecurity/privacy for tweens.  The game is called A Day in the Life of the Jos.  This project is done in collaboration with MediaSmarts.  Christine worked on the initial conceptualization and the visual design of the game, while Sana has been working on the interaction design and implementation. Recently, Sana's part of the project was featured by Grad Studies.   … [Read more...] about Education game featured