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  • LERSSE Paper Receives a Honourable Mention at CHI 2021

    LERSSE paper “The U in Crypto Stands for Usable: An Empirical Study of User Experience with Mobile Cryptocurrency Wallets” has been accepted at CHI 2021. The abstract of the paper reads: In a corpus of 45,821 app reviews of the top five mobile cryptocurrency wallets, we identified and qualitatively analyzed 6,859 reviews pertaining to the […] Read More

  • LERSSE Paper Gets Accepted at CHI 2021

      LERSSE paper “Bits Under the Mattress: Understanding Different Risk Perceptions and Security Behaviors of Crypto-Asset Users”  has been accepted at CHI 2021. The abstract of the paper reads: Crypto-assets are unique in tying financial wealth to the secrecy of private keys. Prior empirical work has attempted to study end-user security from both technical and […] Read More

  • LERSSE Paper Accepted at CHI 2021: Implicit Authentication

    LERSSE paper “On Smartphone Users’ Difficulty with Understanding Implicit Authentication”  has been accepted at CHI 2021.   The abstract of the paper reads: Implicit authentication (IA) has recently become a popular approach for providing physical security on smartphones. It relies on behavioral traits (e.g., gait patterns) for user identification, instead of biometric data or knowledge […] Read More

  • LERSSE Paper Gets Accepted at MobileHCI 2020

    LERSSE paper titled “Is Implicit Authentication on Smartphones Really Popular? On Android Users’ Perception of Smart Lock for Android” has been accepted for publication at the Twenty-Second International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2020). The paper will be presented at the virtual conference holding later in the year.   Read More

  • LERSSE Paper Gets Accepted at SOUPS 2020

    LERSSE paper titled “Towards Understanding Privacy and Trust in Online Reporting of Sexual Assault” has been accepted for publication at the Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2020. The paper will be presented at the conference holding later in the year. Read More

Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering (LERSSE) is a research and educational laboratory in the Faculty of Applied Science and housed within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. LERSSE is devoted to the research and training in all technical aspects of engineering secure systems. Research projects at LERSSE span a wide range of topics from network security, to enterprise security architectures, to engineering secure software, to the usability aspects of security mechanisms, and to the critical infrastructure interdependencies.
LERSSE members seek to foster cooperation between academia, industry, and government in the research and development of new methods, techniques, and tools for the construction, administration, and operation of practical and usable secure information and communication systems. Through courses, projects, research, workshops, and seminars, we train undergraduate and graduate students in security engineering. This experience gives them early exposure to a wide range of practices in security assurance, secure system design, and secure software development.

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RSS Recent Publications

  • Security Notifications in Static Analysis Tools: Developers’ Attitudes, Comprehension, and Ability to Act on Them
  • On Smartphone Users’ Difficulty with Understanding Implicit Authentication
  • The U in Crypto Stands for Usable: An Empirical Study of User Experience with Mobile Cryptocurrency Wallets
  • Bits Under the Mattress: Understanding Different Risk Perceptions and Security Behaviors of Crypto-Asset Users
  • Is Implicit Authentication on Smartphones Really Popular? On Android Users’ Perception of “Smart Lock for Android”
  • Towards Understanding Privacy and Trust in Online Reporting of Sexual Assault
  • Surviving the Cryptojungle: Perception and Management of Risk Among North American Cryptocurrency (Non)Users
  • The Burden of Ending Online Account Sharing
Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering
Vancouver Campus
Room #4085, 2332 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Website lersse.ece.ubc.ca
Email lersse-it@ece.ubc.ca
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