Meeting Minutes

Date:	August 11, 2010
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Matthew Thorne

1. Attendance

Elodie Fourquet Eugene Greene Marshall Hahn Craig Kaplan Philippe Lamoureux Ed Lank Steve Mann Alex Pytel

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Alex- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Ed Lank
Coffee hour next week:: Matthew Thorne

3. Forthcoming

Date:	August 18, 2010	August 25, 2010	August 31, 2010	September 7, 2010
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30
Chair:	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet
Technical Presentation:	Mike Terry	Matthew Thorne	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan

4. Technical Presentation

Ed Lank	Title : Privacy and Security Personas Abstract: Usable privacy and security (PAS) has become a significant area of interest for many people in both industry and academia. A better understanding of the users is an important factor in the design of privacy and security tools. However, users of these tools are a heterogeneous group, and many past studies of user characteristics in the security and privacy domain have looked only at a small subset of factors to define differences between groups of users. The goal of this research is to critically look at the difference between people, their opinions and habits, when it comes to issues of privacy and security. By conducting and analyzing 32 in-depth qualitative interviews we identify five different types of prototypical users: Fundamentalist, Lazy Experts, Technicians, Struggling Amateurs, and the Marginally Aware. Through an understanding of the different types of users, PAS tools can be more carefully tailored either to individual types of users, or to various different types of users who make use of these tools.

Ed Lank

Title : Privacy and Security Personas
Abstract:
Usable privacy and security (PAS) has become a significant area of interest for many people in both industry and academia. A better understanding of the users is an important factor in the design of privacy and security tools. However, users of these tools are a heterogeneous group, and many past studies of user characteristics in the security and privacy domain have looked only at a small subset of factors to define differences between groups of users.

The goal of this research is to critically look at the difference between people, their opinions and habits, when it comes to issues of privacy and security. By conducting and analyzing 32 in-depth qualitative interviews we identify five different types of prototypical users: Fundamentalist, Lazy Experts, Technicians, Struggling Amateurs, and the Marginally Aware. Through an understanding of the different types of users, PAS tools can be more carefully tailored either to individual types of users, or to various different types of users who make use of these tools.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

Poster!

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2010 Aug 12, 10:30 - Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar: Azin Ashkan, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Intent-Aware Effectiveness Measures in Retrieval Evaluation

2010 Aug 12, 11:30 - Waterloo Formal Methods PhD Seminar: Ali Taleghani, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci, Univ. Waterloo; State-Space Coverage Estimation

2010 Aug 12, 13:30 - Waterloo Formal Methods PhD Seminar: Ali Taleghani, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci, Univ. Waterloo; Search Carrying Code

2010 Aug 13, 10:30 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Master's Thesis Presentation: Elena Ruiz, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Drawing planar graphs with prescribed face areas

2010 Aug 16, 15:00 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Master's Thesis Presentation: Yichuan (Charlie) Tang, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo and the Centre for Theoretical Neural Science; Robust Visual Recognition Using Multilayer Generative Neural Networks

2010 Aug 17, 12:00 - Institute for Quantum Computing PhD Seminar: Ansis Rosmanis, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Quantum snake walk on the glued trees graph

2010 Aug 17, 14:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Master's Thesis Presentation: Feng-Xuan Choo, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. of Waterloo; Serial Memory in Spiking Neurons

2010 Aug 18, 13:00 - Human-Computer Interaction Master's Thesis Presentation: Janna-Lynn Weber, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. of Waterloo; Privacy and Security Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: Informing Future Tool Design

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