Professor M. Angela Sasse

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Head of Information Security Research

Office: 6.06, Malet Place Engineering
Tel: +44 020 7679 7212
Fax: +44 020 7387 1397
Email: a.sasse [at] cs.ucl.ac.uk

Research

Research interests: how we design and implement innovative technologies that are fit for pupose, value for money, and improve productivity and well-being of individuals and society.

Current research projects

The Information Security Group has been integrated with Angela's research on Human-Centred Systems. The emerging research group will get its dedicated web presence shortly.

Teaching

People and Security (GA10)
Also taught at Oxford University as part of the Software Engineering Programme

Short Biography

Read psychology in Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University, and a PhD in Computer Science (on Users' Models) from the University of Birmingham. Worked as a Human Factors Specialist for Philips Corporate Industrial Design in 1990. Started as Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UCL in November 1990.

Beyond UCL

Member of the EPSRC College since 2003.
Visiting Professor at the Defence Academy at Shrivenham
Currently chair of the Human Vulnerabilites SIG of the Cybersecurity KTN, member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council

Conferences

Past Chair of the British HCI Group (A Specialist Group of the British Computer Society) and Joint Technical Programme Chair of HCI'96.
International Programme Committee Co-Chair of INTERACT'99 in Edinburgh.
Papers Co-Chair (with Betsy Comstock) of CHI 2002 in Minneapolis.
Co-Chair of Mentoring Program (with Michael Muller) for CHI 2003 in Ft. Lauderdale.
Co-Chair of WEIS 2009

Research Fellows: Dr Philip Inglesant, Dr Will Seager, Dr Sacha Brostoff, Dr Charlene Jennett, Dr Ashweeni Beeharee, Sven Laqua
Current PhD students: Hendrik Knoche, Sven Laqua, Adam Beautement, Adrian Rahaman, Miguel Malheiros, Martin Ruskov, Sharul Tajuddin, Inka Karppinen, Oliver Spindler

List of all PhD students.

Recent Publications

Inglesant, P.G. & Sasse, M.A. (2010). The true cost of unusable password policies: password use in the wild. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. Atlanta, Georgia, USA: ACM, pp. 383-392.
Inglesant P., Sasse M.A. (2010). Studying Password Use in the Wild: Practical Problems and Possible Solutions. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2010, July 14-16, 2010, Redmond, WA, USA.
Beautement, A., Sasse, M.A (2010). Gathering realistic authentication performance data through field trials. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Redmond, Washington
Brostoff S., Inglesant P., Sasse M.A. (2010). Evaluating the usability and security of a graphical one-time PIN system. 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction HCI2010, Dundee, Scotland, 6 Sep 2010 - 10 Sep 2010
Beautement, A., Sasse, M.A. (2010). The Compliance Budget: The economics of user effort in information security. Computer Fraud & Security, Volume 2009, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 8-12
Keval,H., Sasse,M. A. (2010). “Not the Usual Suspects” : A Study of Factors Reducing the Effectiveness of CCTV. Security Journal . ISSN: 0955-1662
Flechais, I., Sasse, M.A. (2009). Stakeholder involvement, motivation, responsibility, communication: How to design usable security in e-Science. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67(4), 281-296.
Laqua, S., Sasse, A. (2009). Exploring Blog Spaces: A Study of Blog Reading Experiences using Dynamic Contextual Displays. HCI 2009, 1-5 Sept. 2009, Cambridge, UK.
Laqua, S., Sasse, A., Gates, C., Greenspan, S. (2009). Making Sense of the Unknown: Knowledge Disseminiation in Organizations. In: Sensemaking Workshop, CHI 2009, Boston, MA.