Postdoc Sana Maqsood was recently featured by Carleton for her research in digital literacy for youth. Quoting from the article, her game, A day in the life of the Jos, has been deployed in "300 classrooms across the country by early 2020. The game has been licensed by 20 school boards in Canada so far, and Nunavut and Yukon have territory-wide licences. More schools are expected to join in the coming months as social measures ease." … [Read more...] about Sana is in the news
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Sandra is in the news
Carleton is posting stories about graduating students this week, and chose to do a story about Sandra how she returned to school to do her Masters of HCI degree. Here's the story: https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/learning-prof-returns-classroom/ … [Read more...] about Sandra is in the news
Khadija wins Provost Award
Computer Science undergrad Khadija Baig has won a 2020 Provost Award for her outstanding contributions to research and outreach as an undergraduate student. Congratulations Khadija! The Carleton news article about the award and ceremony is available here: https://carleton.ca/provost/2020/provost-scholars-announced/ … [Read more...] about Khadija wins Provost Award
3MT videos posted
Earlier this year, Reham competed in the Carleton 3-Minute Thesis competition. Videos of the presentations have been posted. Here is Reham's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=DjTTANDqtBo Other presentations are also available … [Read more...] about 3MT videos posted
News story about Hala
Carleton has written up a news article about Hala, her PhD, and her medal :) https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/hala-assals-journey-to-a-phd-in-computer-science/ … [Read more...] about News story about Hala
Hiring two tenure-track Security Faculty
We are hiring two tenure-track security faculty. One of the target areas is usable security. Besides the info on the official ad, the School also hosts an interdisciplinary Masters of HCI program. Location: Carleton University, Ottawa, CanadaPosition: Two tenure-track faculty positionsApplication Deadline: December 1, 2018The official job ad is at http://scs.carleton.ca/security19 The School of Computer Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada invites applications … [Read more...] about Hiring two tenure-track Security Faculty
MITACS article
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
Education game featured
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
HCIN5200 student research featured
Daniela Napoli's research on colour-blindness in games has been featured by Carleton: https://gradstudents.carleton.ca/2017/grad-research-impact-colour-blindness-online-gaming/ Daniela is a first year Masters student in the HCI program and was a student in HCIN5200 last semester. She conducted this research in the CHORUS lab as her finalcourse project. … [Read more...] about HCIN5200 student research featured
comp5115 research project highlighted
Borke Obada, a Master's student in Computer Science, took COMP5115 Security & Usability in Fall 2015. Her final research project involved a qualitative user study exploring privacy and security habits of people using online dating sites. Students in the class are strongly encouraged to undertake real projects research as their final class assignment. Her research was recently highlighted the Carleton Graduate Newsletter. … [Read more...] about comp5115 research project highlighted