Sonia Chiasson
Professor & HCI Program Co-Director
| Degrees: | PhD 杏吧原创 University (2009), MSc University of Saskatchewan (2004), BCS University of New Brunswick (1999) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 4333 |
| Email: | chiasson@scs.carleton.ca |
| Office: | HP5125a |
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Research Interests
Usable security, human-computer interaction, computer security, educational games
Specific Research Interests
Usable security and privacy for children, user authentication, usable security for mobile devices, improving mental models of security, visualizations of computer security, persuasive games to improve security behaviour of end-users, phishing and trust of web interfaces, collaborative security code reviews
Current Research
Dr. Chiasson鈥檚 research in usable security seeks to design computer security system that better fit into people’s daily lives. It combines聽human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer security聽聽to聽design security applications and to explore how underlying system and interaction design choices can lead to more secure systems. It uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods.聽Dr. Chiasson鈥檚 uses her research to help software developers improve security measures in software development,聽聽improve the usability of security systems to reduce risk of compromises, improve user authentication, and聽create games and educational material to teach users, particularly children, how to be safe online and how to think critically about privacy and security.
Biography
Dr. Chiasson is the Canada Research Chair in Human Oriented Computer Security. She is the Deputy Scientific Director of SERENE-RISC, a cybersecurity Network of Centers of Excellence of Canada funded under the Knowledge Mobilization program. She was previously the project leader for Human Behaviour and Computer Security with ISSNet, NSERC’s Internetworked Security Systems Network. Dr. Chiasson received her master鈥檚 from the University of Saskatchewan and then joined the university鈥檚 Department of Computer Science as a full time instructor. She then came to 杏吧原创 University where she received her Ph.D. and subsequently became a faculty member at 杏吧原创鈥檚 School of Computer Science in 2011.