Overview
Acquisition and Ecommerce
Analysis and Testing
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Configuration Management
Education
Environments
Games, Virtual Worlds, and Interactive Technologies
Human-Computer Interaction
Hypermedia
Information Visualization
Internet-scale Event Notification
Open Source Software
Privacy and Security
Software Architecture
Software Understanding
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Privacy and security are issues that are central to ISR's research mission,
since they lie at the intersection of software design, human factors, and policy
concerns. We are pursuing a number of projects that explore different aspects
of these problems as they relate to current and future information systems design
and use. In the area of privacy, we are exploring the question of privacy and
personalization from a perspective that combines policy analysis, user evaluation,
and intelligent interface architectures. In the area of security, we are exploring
the use of distributed event monitoring and visualization to provide end users
with systems that disclose aspects of their security configuration for examination,
exploration, and control. Faculty
Paul Dourish
Alfred Kobsa
David F. Redmiles Projects
Usable Security - This project aims both to develop novel security
technologies and also to understand the practical and mundane aspects of computer
security in people's activities. Collaborators:
- Rebecca Grinter,
Palo Alto Research Center
- Diane Smetters, Palo Alto Research Cente
Cooperation
Awareness and Privacy The aim of the project is to help people who collaborate
remotely to negotiate a policy for disseminating group awareness information
that balances the demand for such information with individual privacy preferences.
Privacy
as a Design Requirement (in conjunction with CRITO)
This project studies the impacts of international privacy laws and user preferences
on "personalized" web-based systems, which cater their interaction
to each individual user and collect considerable amounts of personal data
for this purpose.
SWIRL - Effective
Security Awareness through Visualization
Selected Publications
- Paul Dourish and David F. Redmiles. 2002. An Approach to Usability Security
Based on Event Monitoring and Visualization. Proc. New Security Paradigms
Workshop (Virginia Beach, VA)
- Kobsa, A. 2002. Personalized
Hypermedia and International Privacy. Communications of the ACM 45(5),
64-67.
- Kobsa, A. 2001. Tailoring
Privacy to Users' Needs (Invited Keynote). In M. Bauer, P. J. Gmytrasiewicz
and J. Vassileva, eds.: User Modeling 2001: 8th International Conference.
Berlin - Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 303-313.
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