CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

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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

Summer RAs

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We are happy to have two new students joining us in the lab over the summer. Michael Kuang is a Computer Science undergrad who has been awarded a Dean's Summer Research Internship. He will be working on research relating to mobile user authentication. Khadija Baig is a Computer Science undergraduate student who recently completed her first year and will be working on research relating to secure software development. … [Read more...] about Summer RAs

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CLUE internships

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Two CHORUS lab members will be completing CLUE internships this summer.  The internships provide hands-on industry experience in the area of human-computer interaction. Christine Mekhail, a Masters student in HCI,  will be working at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Reham Ebada, a PhD student in Computer Science, will be working at TrendMicro. … [Read more...] about CLUE internships

CAN-CWiC participation

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Several lab members had the opportunity to participate in the ACM Canadian Women in Computing conference, held in Ottawa Jan 22-23. Hala, Sana, and Reham gave a well-attended tutorial on Usable Security. Kalpana, Christine, Sana, and Hala each presented posters with some of their research. Sana won 3rd place overall in the poster competition! … [Read more...] about CAN-CWiC participation