Over the last year, we have been working with Bluink on an alternative authentication mechanism for children. We were happy to hear that a paper summarizing some of that work has been accepted at MobileHCI 2017. The paper is: No passwords needed: The iterative design of a parent-child authentication mechanism, by Kalpana Hundlani, Sonia Chiasson, Larry Hamid. … [Read more...] about Paper accepted at MobileHCI 2017
Presenting at the Research Money Annual Conference
Sonia will be a panelist on the Leveraging Emerging Technologies panel at the 2017 Research Money Annual Conference held in Ottawa, April 4-5. … [Read more...] about Presenting at the Research Money Annual Conference
Paper accepted at Social Media & Society 2017
We are pleased to hear that our paper entitled When private and professional lives meet: The impact of digital footprints on employees and political candidates” by PhD students Reham Mohamed and Thais Bardini Idalino has been accepted at Social Media & Society 2017. We will be presenting the work at the conference in Toronto, July 28-30. … [Read more...] about Paper accepted at Social Media & Society 2017
Presenting an About the User lecture
Sonia will be presenting Eyetracking: insight into user behaviour as part of the 1125@Carleton About the User lecture series on March 15 … [Read more...] about Presenting an About the User lecture
Mentoring award
Sonia was awarded a Carleton 2016 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award, after nominations by her current and former students. The ceremony was held on March 1. … [Read more...] about Mentoring award
Designing Privacy for Real People Symposium
Sonia will present at this year's OPC Pathways to Privacy event: Designing Privacy for Real People Symposium at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, held on March 10. … [Read more...] about Designing Privacy for Real People Symposium
USEC 2017 presentation
On Feb 26, Borke presented her paper at USEC 2017 in San Diego. The paper was entitled Don’t Break My Heart!”: User Security Strategies for Online Dating, by Borke Obada-Obieh, Sonia Chiasson and Anil Somayaji. While at USEC, Sonia also presented on a panel about users' decision-making in relation to usable privacy and security. … [Read more...] about USEC 2017 presentation
Presenting at Digital Adoption Symposium
Sonia presented at the 2017 Digital Adoption Symposium - Securing Canada's Prosperity in a Digital World, hosted by the Digital Policy Forum. She was part of a panel on Meaningful Consumer Adoption Challenges and Solutions … [Read more...] about Presenting at Digital Adoption Symposium
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
Leah’s PhD Proposal
Leah Zhang-Kennedy successfully defended her PhD proposal today. Her proposal is entitled Multimedia Approaches for Improving Children's Security and Privacy Knowledge and Persuading Behaviour Change. She will be wrapping up her work and will defend her thesis later this year. … [Read more...] about Leah’s PhD Proposal