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Individual feedback on your seminar paper

Written on 04.03.20 by Katharina Krombholz

Dear students,

First and foremost - thank you very much for all your hard work. I really enjoyed teaching this seminar and I really have the impression that all of you have learned a lot on user-centric security and scientific writing.

I am very sorry that the individual feedback comes so late,… Read more

Dear students,

First and foremost - thank you very much for all your hard work. I really enjoyed teaching this seminar and I really have the impression that all of you have learned a lot on user-centric security and scientific writing.

I am very sorry that the individual feedback comes so late, but please be aware that reading your papers carefully also takes a lot of time. I really enjoyed reading your papers and have sent out individual feedback via e-mail to all of you. If you have not received such an email, please let me know. If you have any questions, or do not understand the feedback, also let me know and I will clarify. Please note that I receive a lot of e-mails and I am currently traveling, so expect delayed answers. I hope that my feedback is useful for your future papers and theses. 

The final grades and certificates will be issued by the end of next week. All talks and papers where good enough to pass the seminar, so everyone who has given a talk and submitted a paper has no reason to worry!

 

Final presentations

Written on 20.01.20 by Katharina Krombholz

Dear students,

We really enjoyed last weeks final presentations and are looking forward to the ones being presented tomorrow. Please note that presence is mandatory and that we will start at 10.00 sharp.

Besides the final presentations, we will also do the lecture evaluation.

See you tomorrow!

Final presentations

Written on 08.01.20 (last change on 09.01.20) by Katharina Krombholz

I am looking forward to your final presentations. As the last two sessions of the seminar will be very compact, we will start each session at 10.00! Please be on time and stay within the 10 minutes for your presentation! We will be very strict with the time limits to ensure fairness for all seminar… Read more

I am looking forward to your final presentations. As the last two sessions of the seminar will be very compact, we will start each session at 10.00! Please be on time and stay within the 10 minutes for your presentation! We will be very strict with the time limits to ensure fairness for all seminar participants. If you have any doubts about whether your laptop/tablet will work with the projector in the seminar room, please test it before. I would like to schedule the presentations in the order of you volunteering for slots during the last session. Please swap with one of your colleagues if you wish to change the order (and let me know about these changes)

Presentation schedule:

14.1.20 21.1.20
Jonas Sravni
Abhilash Jannis
Vinay Rishab
Sridar Simon
Suraksha Olli
  Philipp

Register in LSF

Written on 08.01.20 by Katharina Krombholz

Dear students,

if you have not yet registered via LSF, please send an e-mail to the study coordinator to register!

 

 

Happy New Year! Please read the instructions on how to write your seminar paper.

Written on 07.01.20 by Katharina Krombholz

Dear students,

I hope you had relaxing and refreshing holidays and a good start into an exciting new year! A while ago, I added some instructions on how to write your seminar paper on the main page of this seminar. Please read them carefully. If you feel that something is missing or unclear, please… Read more

Dear students,

I hope you had relaxing and refreshing holidays and a good start into an exciting new year! A while ago, I added some instructions on how to write your seminar paper on the main page of this seminar. Please read them carefully. If you feel that something is missing or unclear, please let me know so that I can clarify.

 

Feedback, Tasks until 19 Nov

Written on 07.11.19 by Katharina Krombholz

Dear students,

First of all, thank you very much for the fruitful discussion. Most of you vividly participated and interesting topics and challenges emerged. Very well done! I had the impression that most of you (for the first time) discussed papers from a critical perspective. As you may have… Read more

Dear students,

First of all, thank you very much for the fruitful discussion. Most of you vividly participated and interesting topics and challenges emerged. Very well done! I had the impression that most of you (for the first time) discussed papers from a critical perspective. As you may have noticed, the body of literature in this domain is very sparse and by far not complete. Furthermore, many papers only cover one perspective or population and hence cannot be used to generalize. Isn't it exciting that there is still so much room for future work in this domain? Especially if you feel that the literature is incomplete or that important other perspectives are missing, please include such a discussion in your seminar papers. Nevertheless, please treat related papers respectfully as research papers can never be complete, fully objective or cover all aspects of a topic.

I included all information on your todos for our next meeting in the main page of this seminar. Please use the forum to collect interesting resources on design methods and point other students to them.

Looking forward to our next meeting!

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Designing Usable Security

Description: The goal of this seminar is to (1) understand usable security challenges based on user studies from scientific literature, (2) identify the design space based on these studies and (3) propose potential design approaches for user-friendly security and privacy technology.

In the first part of the seminar, we will focus on user studies published at top tier conferences to identify a design space for new usable security and privacy technology. The second part of the seminar will be focused on design methods from human computer interaction. We will search for relevant papers on design methods and discuss their applicability to security, and, in particular, the problems we identified in the first part of the seminar. You will also write a seminar paper on a usable security challenge of your choice consisting of a literature review of user studies and design methods, and your own reasoning about potential solutions. The goal of this seminar is to use interdisciplinary methods to understand and address hard usable security problems. You will be encouraged to be creative and think outside the box to find innovative and unconventional solutions.

Requirements: Foundations of Cybersecurity I and II, Usable Security (Advanced Lecture)

Important Dates (Presence is mandatory):

  • 5 Nov 19 - Topic selection based on 3-5 scientific papers
  • 19 Nov 19 - Design approaches from Industrial Design/UX/HCI
  • 10 Dec 19 - Intermediate feedback, final presentations
  • 14 Jan 20 - Final presentations
  • 21 Jan 20 - Final presentations
  • 28 Jan 20 - Final paper due

How do I get a grade?

You will be graded based on the seminar paper (to be submitted via CMS no later than 28 Jan 20) and your final presentation. An important criteria is the originality of your work. I strongly encourage you to think outside the box and discuss creative, controversial, disruptive design ideas in your paper. Your presentation should spark interesting and fruitful discussions in class. Don't be afraid of disagreement but make sure to justify your conclusions and reasoning.


What do I have to do until 5 Nov?

Choose one of the four topics presented during the kick-off:

  • Privacy in the Internet of Things
  • Privacy and security for underrepresented populations
  • Usable security for experts, e.g., developers and administrators
  • Usable encryption

Consider the recent editions of the most important venues for usable security papers and read (or briefly skim) 3-5 papers on the topic of your choice. Prepare arguments to describe the design space based on these papers. You do not have to prepare slides, just bring the papers and freely talk about the their findings and your reasoning on the design space.

Please consider at least three papers from the following conferences:

  • Usenix SOUPS
  • ACM CHI
  • Usenix Security
  • ACM CCS
  • IEEE S&P
  • NDSS

What do I have to do until 19 Nov?

Revise the Slides on Design Methods from the Usable Security Lecture. Spend additional 30-60 minutes (depending on your previous knowledge on design methods) researching the Internet on design methods from Industrial Design or UX. Hint: ACM CHI has design papers that could also be a fruitful source. You are encouraged to use the discussion forum of this seminar to point others to interesting sources.


Instructions for final presentations (14 Jan, 26 Jan)

Your presentation should be 10 minutes long and about a third of the time should be dedicated to elaborating the design space. In the remaining two thirds you should talk about suitable design approaches. Please note that we will be very strict with time limits, so you must stay within the 10 minutes to finish your presentation.

Please also use this chance to work on your presentation skills. Remember that this is a safe space where you can also try out something new! Consider an "unusual", more creative introduction to the topic. Think about different ways of visualizing content. You do not have to prepare slides, but you can if you want. I am looking forward to some exciting discussions.

Presentation schedule:

14.1.20 21.1.20
Jonas Sravni
Abhilash Jannis
Vinay Rishab
Sridar Simon
Suraksha Olli
  Philipp

Instructions to write your seminar paper (until 28th of January 2020)

For the seminar paper, please remember that your paper will be graded based on its content and not based on its length. Please make sure to be precise when framing the design space. What *exactly* is the usable security challenge that you want to address? Why is this particular challenge important? What is beyond the scope and not considered in your report?

When reasoning about design approaches that could be suitable to address your selected challenge, please provide enough information for the reader to understand the design method. When discussing the method and its applicability, always make sure to justify and critically reflect.

Please use the SOUPS conference proceedings LaTex template (linked in the SOUPS 2020 Call for Papers https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2019/call-for-papers). Your report should be between 5 and 10 pages long using this template, excluding references and appendices. Including reference and appendices, your paper should not be longer than 15 pages.

We are looking forward to reading your papers.

 

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