Meeting Agenda

Date:	June 24th, 2009
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Cherry Zhang

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Matthew Thorne- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	July 8st, 2009	July 15th, 2009	July 22nd, 2009	July 29th, 2009
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Areej Alhothali	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet
Technical Presentation:	Matthew Thorne	Cherry Zhang	Areej Alhothali	Gabriel Esteves

4. Technical Presentation

Matthew Kay	Title : Abstract: One area often overlooked in the design of computer-based consent agreements is that of localization. Software and services that are publicly available on the Internet may be accessed by individuals anywhere in the world, including people whose native language is different from the language in which the consent agreement is written. While translation and localization are obvious answers to this problem, these processes are time-consuming, costly, and imperfect. We introduce illustrated consent agreements as a means to help address issues of gaining consent from a diverse population of users. Illustrated consent agreements use (primarily) wordless diagrams to supplement agreement content to aid in the communication of important concepts, with an aim to reduce localization burdens. We discuss a planned experiment to evaluate user comprehension of illustrated consent agreements.

Matthew Kay

Title :
Abstract:
One area often overlooked in the design of computer-based consent agreements is that of localization. Software and services that are publicly available on the Internet may be accessed by individuals anywhere in the world, including people whose native language is different from the language in which the consent agreement is written. While translation and localization are obvious answers to this problem, these processes are time-consuming, costly, and imperfect. We introduce illustrated consent agreements as a means to help address issues of gaining consent from a diverse population of users. Illustrated consent agreements use (primarily) wordless diagrams to supplement agreement content to aid in the communication of important concepts, with an aim to reduce localization burdens. We discuss a planned experiment to evaluate user comprehension of illustrated consent agreements.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

    * 2009 Jun 24, 10:00 � Human-Computer Interaction Master's Thesis Presentation
      Richard Fung, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
      Kinematic Templates: Manipulating Control-Display Ratio in End-User Drawing Tools
    * 2009 Jun 24, 13:30 � Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
      Margareta Ackerman, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
      Three New Algorithms for Regular Language Enumeration
    * 2009 Jun 25, 16:30 � Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar
      Professor Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University
      Learning about Human-Computer Authentication through Graphical Passwords

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