{"id":9033,"date":"2018-03-23T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=9033"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:57:09","slug":"3-minute-thesis","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/3-minute-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Student Takes Second at Ontario 3MT Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Update: After her research presentation won first place and netted her a $1,000 award at the sixth annual Carleton 3MT competition on March 21, Daniella Briotto Faustino took second place at the provincial 3MT competition on April 19 at York University.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlease raise your hand if you have never forgotten a password,\u201d said Daniella Briotto Faustino as she began her Three Minute Thesis (3MT)<\/a> presentation at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embarrassed laughter rippled through the room, and no one raised a finger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone has trouble remembering every single password or PIN, said the second-year human-computer interaction student, but the challenge is even greater for the visually impaired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine if while typing your password you couldn\u2019t see the keys or the screen to make sure you are typing into the password field,\u201d she said. \u201cFor more than 250 million people around the world who are blind or have low vision, that\u2019s how passwords have to be dealt with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Founded by the University of Queensland<\/a> in Australia, 3MT celebrates graduate student research and takes place at universities around the world. To boil down a year or more of research into no more than 180 seconds is quite a feat, but one that former participants have said builds confidence and enhances their presentation and communication skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an online survey with more than 300 people from 14 countries, Briotto Faustino found that more than half of her respondents didn\u2019t feel fully able to protect their digital information, and 30 per cent of those who own smartphones said they simply didn\u2019t protect their devices with any unlocking method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants in the 3MT can only use one slide in their presentation and Briotto Faustino\u2019s showed a silicone device she built with flex sensors to capture and verify \u201cbend passwords.\u2019\u2019 She began designing the device last September. It has a flexible middle and corners that users can bend or fold in a specific order to undo a digital lock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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