Exploring Mobile Device Comfort
Presented by Steve Marsh, CRC Canada
Date: Tuesday January 18, 2011
Time: 6:00pm
Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa
Abstract:
Convergent mobile devices are becoming increasingly powerful, and have capabilities undreamed of not so very long ago. These capabilities, however, have darker consequences when used without forethought. For instance, a camera can take snaps of people and places, but can be used in much more damaging pursuits (as the sexting phenomenon has shown us); texting can expose the user to danger when it distracts from other tasks; the amount of storage, or password saving capabilities, of the devices open up the possibilities of theft and fraud. We believe that many of the problems can be tackled by using the awareness of the device itself, and have introduced the concept of ‘Device Comfort’ – a phenomenon based on a radical evolution of trust reasoning that can allow a mobile device to protect both its user and its data based on location, task, user, and other contextual information that the device itself can garner. This talk will introduce Device Comfort, the reasons for it and its uses, and present our ongoing research and development.
Speaker Bio:
Steve Marsh is a Research Scientist in the Network Security Group at in the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His PhD (University of Stirling, 1994) was a seminal work that introduced the first formalization of the phenomenon of trust (the concept of ‘Computational Trust’), and applied it to Multi Agent Systems. As a milestone in trust research, it brought together disparate disciplines and attempted to make sense of a vital phenomenon in human and artificial societies, and is still widely referenced today. Steve’s current work builds extensively on this model, applying it to network security, critical infrastructure protection, MANETs, and mobile device security. Steve’s research interests include computational trust, trust management, regret and regret management, and socially adept technologies. He is the Canadian delegate to IFIP Technical Committee 11: Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems.
When and Where:
This event will take place on Tuesday, January 18, 6:00pm at TheCodeFactory, located at 246 Queen Street, between Bank and Kent, (on the second floor) above the Green Papaya Restaurant.
Note: There is no cost for attending this event and prior registration is not required. Light snacks and refreshments will be served. An informal social gathering will follow at a nearby pub.
CapCHI is a social and professional society of people who work as user interface designers, researchers, educators, software developers, web designers, graphic designers and human factors engineers in and around Canada’s National Capital Region. Founded in 1991, CapCHI’s goal is to bring together local professionals interested in how humans and computers interact, in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.