Kalpana Hundlani

About

Kalpana completed her Masters of Computer Science in 2016. She completed an 8-month internship at CaseWare International in 2015.

Thesis Abstract

Many studies reflect that today’s younger generation spends a considerable amount of time online whether for doing their homework or playing games. However, the authentication schemes for this user group has received negligible attention. When exploring alternate authentication mechanisms for children, we decided to reduce the password burden and involve parents in the authentication decision. We chose to explore whether a parent-child password manager was a good choice for achieving  this goal.

We started with our `Keep A Secret’ prototype, a parent-managed password manager for children. On the next iteration, we designed `KinderSurf’, a parental consent mechanism based on the OpenID concept. We conducted two user studies for evaluating the prototypes. These user studies revealed areas for improvements, but overall both parents and children like the idea of using parental consent to log in.

Research Interests

Usable security and privacy, designing for children, user authentication

Publications

Conference Papers

• Fiona Westin, Kalpana Hundlani, and Sonia Chiasson. “I just want to play games with friends and it asked me for all of my information”: Trading privacy for connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. In European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), page 40–52. ACM 2022.
  [Bibtex]

  @inproceedings{westin2022tradingprivacy-eurousec,
  title={``I just want to play games with friends and it asked me for all of my information'': Trading privacy for connection during the COVID-19 pandemic},
  author={Westin, Fiona and Hundlani, Kalpana and Chiasson, Sonia},
  booktitle={European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC)},
  pages={40--52},
  year={2022},
  publisher = {ACM},
  note = {Conference Papers},
  doi = {10.1145/3549015.3555672}
  }

• Khadija Baig, Kalpana Hundlani, Elisa Kazan, and Sonia Chiasson. [Paper] Replication: Effects of Media on the Mental Models of Technical Users. In Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). USENIX Association 2021.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{baig2021media-technical-soups,
  author = {Khadija Baig AND Kalpana Hundlani AND Elisa Kazan AND Sonia Chiasson},
  title = {[Paper] Replication: Effects of Media on the Mental Models of Technical Users},
  booktitle = {Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security ({SOUPS})},
  publisher={USENIX Association},
  year = {2021},
  url={https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2021/presentation/baig},
  note = {Conference Papers}
  }

• Kalpana Hundlani, Sonia Chiasson, and Larry Hamid. [Paper] No passwords needed: The iterative design of a parent-child authentication mechanism. In MobileHCI. ACM, 2017.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{hundlani2017kindersurf-mobilehci,
  author = {Kalpana Hundlani AND Sonia Chiasson AND Larry Hamid},
  title = {[Paper] No passwords needed: The iterative design of a parent-child authentication mechanism},
  booktitle = {MobileHCI},
  year = {2017},
  note = {Conference Papers},
  organization = {ACM}
  }

Extended Abstracts and Workshop Papers

• Fiona Westin, Kalpana Hundlani, and Sonia Chiasson. [Extended Abstract] “I’ll throw in a courtesy like”: A poster about features, etiquette, and user privacy. In Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS). USENIX, 2021.
  [Bibtex]

  @INPROCEEDINGS{westing2021-etiquette-soups,
  author = {Fiona Westin AND Kalpana Hundlani AND Sonia Chiasson},
  title = {[Extended Abstract] ``I'll throw in a courtesy like'': A poster about features, etiquette, and user privacy },
  booktitle = {Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS)},
  year = {2021},
  note = {Extended Abstracts and Workshop Papers},
  organization = {USENIX}
  }

Posters and Others

• Kalpana Hundlani, Robert Biddle, and Sonia Chiasson. [Poster] A Glance at Embellishments of Charts. Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference ({CAN-CWiC}), 2016.
  [Bibtex]

  @MISC{hundlani2016embellishment-cwic,
  author = {Kalpana Hundlani AND Robert Biddle AND Sonia Chiasson},
  title = {[Poster] A Glance at Embellishments of Charts},
  howpublished = {Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference ({CAN-CWiC})},
  year = {2016},
  note = {Posters and Others}
  }

Theses

• Kalpana Hundlani. [Thesis] A parent-child password manager. Master’s thesis, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, 2016.
  [Bibtex]

  @MASTERSTHESIS{hundlani2016thesis-carleton,
  author = {Kalpana Hundlani},
  title = {[Thesis] A parent-child password manager},
  school = {School of Computer Science, Carleton University},
  year = {2016},
  note = {Theses}
  }