Usable Security Advanced Lecture

Dear students,

I just sent out some written feedback on your assignment. This should give you a better understand, which topics you might want to revisit, and which you already know sufficiently well. Since most of you struggled with the same topics (IRR calculation, coding), we will offer a tutorial where we will go over all the contents of the assignments, with special focus on the topics most of you had a harder time with. If you feel like you still are unsure about things, or if you could benefit from some examples of how to calculate and code things (which is likely true for most of you), please take this learning opportunity!

Sadly, we got booted out of the lecture hall once again, so tutorial will happen now in CISPA room 0.02, starting 10:00am, on Friday, June 19.

See you there,

Alexander

 

Dear Students,

we just entered the results of the first assignment, almost everyone of you passed! Some did really well, however, we saw that most of you are struggling with some of the concepts, especially related to coding and inter-rater agreement. Therefore, we decided to offer a voluntary tutorial where we go over the qualitative assignment.

Where: C0, CISPA Showroom (Room 0.02)

When: Friday, 19 June, 10:00 - 11:30am

Again, this is an offer we have for you to get the most out of this lecture. We will in any case provide written feedback for your assignment within tomorrow here on CMS, so please check in again to see which subjects you might want to catch up on.

Best,

Alexander

Next Monday, 15th of June will be the timeslot for the first assignment on qualitative methods. In preparation, please familiarize yourself with the corresponding lecture slides. We also recommend you to look at the additional materials we provide under "Materials" to get an even deeper understanding of how qualitative research is being done.

Please bring your student ID, a photo ID and a non-erasable pen.

You are not allowed to use your laptop, tablet, phone or any other electronic device during the assignment. You are also not allowed to use any print-outs or hand-written notes. In case you need to look something up, we will provide a few print-outs of the lecture slides. Please note that there will not be enough time to carefully read these slides during the assignment. The slides are only provided to look up specific details in case you need to.

Dear students,

Tomorrow we offer an office hour, where you can ask questions about the upcoming assignment and lecture content. The office hour will take place from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm in room 3.21 at CISPA.

Coming Monday, June 15, we will have the first assignment, which is on qualitative research methods. It is in-person, and we want to remind you that passing both assignments is a prerequisite for admission to the final exam. You should be able to pass the upcoming assignment if you studied and understood the lecture materials and attended the lectures.

If you have further questions, come to the office hour or email us.

See you tomorrow and/or next Monday!

Dear students,
The next lecture will be held on Monday, June 8. The week after that (June 15), we will have the first assignment, which is on qualitative research methods.

The assignment is in-person, and we want to remind you that passing both assignments is a prerequisite for admission to the final exam, meaning you cannot pass the lecture without passing the assignments.

We recommend that you use the next two weeks without lectures to study the previous lecture materials. If you have any questions, please email us or attend the office hour on Wednesday, June 10, from 11 am to 12 pm in room 3.21 at CISPA.

Enjoy the nice weather and see you on June 8!

Dear students,

We have scheduled two office hours, one a week before each assignment. Both office hours will be on Wednesday, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. 

The concrete dates are:

• Wednesday, June 10, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, before the qualitative assignment, and
• Wednesday, July 1, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, before the quantitative assignment.

We look forward to seeing you there to address any questions regarding lecture content and the upcoming assignment.

Dear students,

We noticed that some of your are still struggling with the prerequisites we have for this class, specifically the statistics part. We uploaded some supplementary reading material to help you familiarize yourself with this knowledge and close any gaps you might still have. Basic statistic knowledge is absolutely vital to follow the contents of this course and will be necessary to pass both the assignment and the final exam. So, if you feel like you need a refresher, now is the perfect time to start.

Hope to see you all in large numbers again on Monday, wishing you all the best

Dear Students,

We have uploaded the slide deck for next Monday's lecture on quantitative methods and statistics. We added a small crash course to this slide deck to repeat basic terminology from statistics (slides 23-38). Please note that statistics is a pre-requisite for this lecture, so we will not repeat these foundations during the lecture, but focus more on their application. Therefore, please look at slides 23-38 to recap and make sure that you are familiar with these fundamentals. Have a great rest of the week and see you on Monday!

Dear students,

Thank you very much for coming to the lecture today and thank you also for all the fruitful discussions. It is a pleasure to teach such an inspiring crowd!
Unfortunately, *only half of the registered students* showed up today. Don't worry, attendance is not mandatory, but there is one thing we are wondering about: do you *really* want to take this course this semester? If not, please let us know as soon as possible. We had some students in class today that did not get a spot and just listened to the lecture without being graded. If you decide to not take this lecture despite getting one of the precious spots, please send us an email as soon as possible, so that we can make sure that someone else can get your spot. 

Many thanks for your collaboration - see you next week!

Dear students,
We have randomly selected 30 students (out of 117) to participate in the lecture. If you are still registered for this course, this means you have a spot in the lecture.

We look forward to seeing you at the first lecture on Monday, 20 April, at 10 am in the CISPA Lecture Hall (Room 0.05, Building E9.1).