{"id":634,"date":"2016-07-18T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=634"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:57","slug":"sonia-chiasson","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/sonia-chiasson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Chiasson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Usable security, human-computer interaction, computer security, educational games<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"specific-research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Specific Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Usable security and privacy for children, user authentication, usable security for mobile devices, improving mental models of security, visualizations of computer security, persuasive games to improve security behaviour of end-users, phishing and trust of web interfaces, collaborative security code reviews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"current-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chiasson\u2019s research in usable security seeks to design computer security system that better fit into people&#8217;s daily lives. It combines&nbsp;human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer security&nbsp;&nbsp;to&nbsp;design security applications and to explore how underlying system and interaction design choices can lead to more secure systems. It uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods.&nbsp;Dr. Chiasson\u2019s uses her research to help software developers improve security measures in software development,&nbsp;&nbsp;improve the usability of security systems to reduce risk of compromises, improve user authentication, and&nbsp;create games and educational material to teach users, particularly children, how to be safe online and how to think critically about privacy and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chiasson is the Canada Research Chair in Human Oriented Computer Security. She is the Deputy Scientific Director of SERENE-RISC, a cybersecurity Network of Centers of Excellence of Canada funded under the Knowledge Mobilization program. She was previously the project leader for Human Behaviour and Computer Security with ISSNet, NSERC&#8217;s Internetworked Security Systems Network. Dr. Chiasson received her master\u2019s from the University of Saskatchewan and then joined the university\u2019s Department of Computer Science as a full time instructor. 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