PhD Candidate Leah Zhang-Kennedy presented at the IDC 2016 conference in Manchester, UK. She presented her paper about children and parents' understanding of online privacy and a poster on her Cyberheroes interactive e-book. … [Read more...] about Leah presents at IDC 2016
APWG eCrime Honorable Mention
We are happy to share that our paper entitled Smells Phishy? An educational game about online phishing scams won an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper award at this year's APWG eCrime conference. The paper describes Malak's work on the design, development, and evaluation of a board game to teach about phishing. … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime Honorable Mention
SERENE Cybercrime 2 tutorial
Yesterday, we hosted the 2nd annual SERENE-RISC Cybercrime tutorial. This year's edition focused on the financial sector and was co-located with APWG eCrime in Toronto. With 60 attendees, the event was completely full. Our speakers covered cybercrime from the perspective of law enforcement investigations, examined trends in cybercrime over the last several years, discussed the use of Bitcoin and e-currencies, detailed how High Yield Investment programs work, discussed a fraud investigation … [Read more...] about SERENE Cybercrime 2 tutorial
CLUE program invited talks posted
As part of the CLUE (Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences) program, we have had several invited guest speakers present on HCI topics. These presentations are now available on Youtube as part of the CLUE seminar series. … [Read more...] about CLUE program invited talks posted
Michael Lutaaya wins Apple scholarship
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
Dinner with the Minister of Science
Sonia was one of a handful of researchers invited by the Minister of Science's office to a Young Scientist dinner where she got to meet and discuss with Minister Kirsty Duncan. … [Read more...] about Dinner with the Minister of Science
Summer RAs
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
IDC 2016 WIP accepted
Leah Zhang-Kennedy's Work-In-Progress paper on the Cyberheroes e-book has been accepted at IDC 2016. The paper, entitled "Teaching with an Interactive E-book to Improve Children's Online Privacy Knowledge", will be available online soon. … [Read more...] about IDC 2016 WIP accepted
Hala presents at CRA-W
Last weekend, PhD Student Hala Assal presented a poster of her PhD research at the 2016 CRA-W Grad Cohort workshop. Hala is researching how to improve the software practices around security code reviews. … [Read more...] about Hala presents at CRA-W
CLUE internships
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