Our paper entitled "From Nosy Little Brothers to Stranger-Danger: Children and Parents’ Perception of Mobile Threats" by Leah Zhang-Kennedy, Christine Mekhail, and Yomna Abdelaziz, and Sonia Chiasson has just been accepted at IDC - the Interaction Design and Children Conference. We will traveling to the UK to present the paper at the conference in June. … [Read more...] about IDC paper accepted
Publication
APWG eCrime papers
We just received the happy news that three of our papers were accepted at the upcoming APWG 2016 eCrime conference. Leah and Malak will be presenting the papers in Toronto in June. The three papers are: (1) L. Zhang-Kennedy, E. Fares, S. Chiasson, R. Biddle. The Effects of Interactivity on Information Visualization about Internet Phishing Trends. (2) L. Zhang-Kennedy, S. Chiasson, P. van Oorschot. Revisiting Password Rules: Facilitating Human Management of Passwords. (3) M. Baslyman, … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime papers
new journal paper – Bend Passwords
We are happy to announce our latest accepted journal article, based on Sana's Masters thesis: S. Maqsood, S. Chiasson, A. Girouard. Bend Passwords: Using Gestures to Authenticate on Flexible Devices. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer. … [Read more...] about new journal paper – Bend Passwords
new IJHCI paper
Our paper: The Role of Instructional Design in Persuasion: A Comics Approach for Improving Cyber Security, by L. Zhang-Kennedy, S. Chiasson, R. Biddle, has been accepted for publication by the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. It will appear in an upcoming special issue on Persuasive Interactive Systems. … [Read more...] about new IJHCI paper
MUM2015 paper accepted
We are happy to hear that our paper: What’s the deal with privacy apps? A comprehensive exploration of user perception and usability by Hala Assal, Stephanie Hurtado, Ahsan Imran and Sonia Chiasson has been accepted at Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM). Hala will be presenting the work in Linz, Austria at the end of November. … [Read more...] about MUM2015 paper accepted
Phishing paper available
Our paper, Why phishing still works: User strategies for combating phishing attacks, in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, is now available as a free download from Elsevier until August 3. http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1RB~V3pfaRP32X … [Read more...] about Phishing paper available
NSPW 2015 paper
We are happy to hear that our paper, Choose Your Own Authentication, was accepted for publication at NSPW 2015. Robert Biddle will be presenting the work at the conference in Twente, The Netherlands, in September. … [Read more...] about NSPW 2015 paper
SOUPS 2015 presentations
Michael Lutaaya will be presenting a SOUPS 2015 poster, Password Rehearsal Memory Games, describing his work on a quick game to help users memorize a randomly generated password. Michael worked on this project as a first year undergraduate researcher in the lab. PhD student Leah Zhang-Kennedy will be presenting a SOUPS 2015 poster entitled Geo-Phisher: The Design of a Global Phishing Trend Visualization Tool based on a project completed with Elias Fares, an HCI student. Their tool … [Read more...] about SOUPS 2015 presentations
SOUPS paper accepted
Our paper, entitled User Perceptions of Sharing, Advertising, and Tracking, was accepted at SOUPS 2015. Farah started this research while taking the Computer Security & Usability graduate course, then continued the work in the following months. She explores users' opinion and preferences of online behavioural advertising across a variety of websites and tracking prevention tools. … [Read more...] about SOUPS paper accepted
Phishing paper to be published
We are pleased to announce that our recent paper, Why phishing still works: user strategies for combating phishing attacks, will be published in the International Journal of Human Computer Studies. A pre-print will be available shortly. Here is the abstract: We have conducted a user study to assess whether improved browser security indicators and increased awareness of phishing have led to users' improved ability to protect themselves against such attacks. Participants were shown a … [Read more...] about Phishing paper to be published