Research Methods in Human-centric Security

Dear students,

We have completed the grading of your home assignments, but unfortunately cannot release them yet as we have strong indicators that some students used AI tools such as LLMs. As clearly stated throughout the seminar, the use of such tools was not permitted and is therefore considered as cheating.

The suspected cases are currently with the university's examination office which is formally reviewing these cases. We are currently reviewing all other submissions again to ensure that all students are treated equally. We will publish the final grades after all these cases have been reviewed and resolved by the examination office.

We apologize for the delay - if for some reason you urgently need your grade (because you are finishing your studies or need documentation of your studies for visas etc.) please reach out to us.

Dear students,
Tomorrow, we will have the final office hour before the submission deadline for your home assignments.
The office hour will be held from 10:00 to 12:00 in room 0.02 at CISPA (the usual room for our sessions).

We encourage you to come there if you have open questions or uncertainties, as discussing in person can be much more productive than exchanging emails.
Also, we cannot guarantee that we can respond before submission if you contact us shortly before the deadline.

We wish you all the best with your assignments and are looking forward to reading your submissions!

Dear students,

We have uploaded a poster template to the materials section of the CMS. This template is intended to serve as a possible starting point for those of you who would like some guidance in creating your posters for the upcoming presentations of your home assignments.

Please note that the use of this template is entirely optional. We encourage you to be creative and adapt it to best suit your presentation's content and style. 

Most importantly, remember that your presentation should be guided by the instructions previously provided for the home assignment. The primary focus should be on clearly and concisely presenting the methodology of your work. The template is a tool for visual aid, not a definitive structure for your content.

We provide some of our posters previously presented at a conference. Again, these can serve as inspiration, but the focus of these is entirely different from what you should present.

We look forward to seeing your insightful presentations.

Examples of Posters:
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2024_poster32-gerhardt_final.pdf
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2024_poster3-fassl_final.pdf
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2024_poster47-bhardwaj_final.pdf

Dear Students,
Due to unforeseen circumstances we had to shift the start of the assignment phase and the topic distribution (we also postponed the submission deadline).
The files for the assignment are now available in the materials section and include (1) a pdf explaining the tasks of the assignment and (2) a LaTeX project that you can use for task 2 of the assignment.
In the pdf file you can also find a short description of five topics. Please send us an email including a clearly ordered list of your preferences (starting with your favourite topic) to seminar-usec-methods@cispa.de by Thursday, June 19th, 2pm.
We will then distribute topics according to your preferences as best as possible.

We will offer two office hours on campus in person, June 27th 13:00 - 15:00 and July 4th 10:00 - 12:00 (rooms TBA). Apart from that, do not hesitate to contact us via mail in case of any questions.
 

Dear students,
Please ensure that you register for the seminar in LSF and inform us if you experience any difficulties.
We have also uploaded reading materials to the CMS. You are encouraged to review them; however, a detailed knowledge is not required for the next session. The materials serve as an introduction and provide helpful context for the topics we will address.
We are looking forward to the next session on May, 9th!