CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

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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

Research study about recent Network Interruption

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**ONLINE SURVEY** Were you impacted by the November network interruptions? Looking for study volunteers (Carleton Faculty, Staff, and Students) Carleton's Usable Security lab (CHORUS) is conducting a user study to understand the effects of the November 29th campus wide network interruption on the Carleton community. If you are interested in participating, please complete our online survey at: https://cuhealth.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eKcG1cj20OKv7QF Were you affected by this … [Read more...] about Research study about recent Network Interruption

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Participant FB page

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We've created a Facebook page to let people know of upcoming Carleton research studies where we are recruiting participants.  https://www.facebook.com/CarletonResearchParticipants/ If interested in getting these notices, please Like the page. We will only post studies cleared by the Carleton University Research Ethics Board and will not contact individual people directly. Feel free to share the link with others who might be interested. As human-computer interaction researchers, we … [Read more...] about Participant FB page

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Michael Lutaaya wins Apple scholarship

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Undergraduate and former CHORUS lab Research Assistant  Michael Lutaaya was recently awarded an Apple scholarship to attend their upcoming week-long WWDC Developers' Conference in June in San Francisco. To apply for the scholarship, he had to submit an app that he's worked on that shows creative use of Apple technologies and write an essay about his programming process. Apples says they received a record number of submissions and that the process was "extremely" competitive. … [Read more...] about Michael Lutaaya wins Apple scholarship