What's New?

Phishguru.org is our new site for teaching people how to protect themselves from phishing scams.

Our CHI 2008 paper, entitled You've Been Warned: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Web Browser Phishing Warnings, was nominated for best paper, but alas, did not win.
      Paper: PDF

I'm temporary director of our undergrad HCI program (while Bob Kraut is on sabbatical). The deadline for applying to our undergrad program is Fri March 21 (note that we had a bug in our slides which previously said April 21).

Presented our work on User Interfaces and Algorithms for Anti-Phishing as part of UPitt's LERSAIS seminar.
      Talk: PPT Now available, a screencast of the Marmite end-user programming system for the web (QuickTime mov, 60megs)

Anti-Phishing Phil is in the news [1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7]. Try out the game here!

Presented our work on User Interfaces and Algorithms for Anti-Phishing as part of MIT's HCI Seminar series.
      Talk: PPT

Presented our work on User Interfaces and Algorithms for Anti-Phishing as part of CMU's HCII Seminar series.
      Talk: PPT

Gave an invited talk to the Ubicomp 2007 workshop on privacy, entitled Understanding and Capturing People's Privacy Policies in a People Finder Application.
      Talk: PPT Paper: PDF

Our paper entitled Getting Users Pay Attention to Anti-Phishing Education: Evaluation of Retention and Transfer was accepted to the APWG eCrime Researchers Summit
      Paper: PDF

I'm co-teaching The Social Web this semester, with Bob Kraut

Our journal paper entitled End-User Privacy in Human-Computer Interaction has been accepted for publication! This is a survey paper looking at how privacy has been addressed in HCI, with respect to design, implementation, and evaluation. Two years in the works and 57 iterations, it's finally good to go!

Gave a CyLab seminar talk entitled User Interfaces and Algorithms for Fighting Phishing. This talk gives an overview of our work to date on anti-phishing.
      Presentation: PPT

Wow, this is really cool! Portugal Telecom has taken our Anti-phishing Phil game, but has replaced our fish with a frog. It's like I'm reliving my Frogger days! Try out Anti-Phishing Ze here

Our work on Anti-Phishing Phil is mentioned in a news article by AP

Our paper entitled The feasibility of a three-dimensional charting interface for general dentistry was just accepted to the Journal of the American Dental Association.

Gave a talk at the Microsoft Faculty Summit about HCI issues with sensor nets. A funny thing, email that was supposed to be sent to me was sent to another Jason Hong inside of Microsoft, so I didn't know I was supposed to talk until I got there.
      Presentation: PPT

Our paper entitled CANTINA: A Content-Based Approach to Detecting Phishing Web Sites was presented at WWW2007.
      Paper: PDF       Presentation: PPT

Our paper Anti-Phishing Phil: The Design and Evaluation of a Game That Teaches People Not to Fall for Phish was accepted to SOUPS 2007. Try out the game!
      Game: Flash       Paper: PDF

Gave a talk to Bosch Research Technology Center (Palo Alto) on Mobile and Location Based Services.
      Presentation: PPT

Our paper entitled Making Mashups with Marmite: Re-purposing Web Content through End-User Programming was presented at CHI2007.
      Paper: PDF (CHI 2007) Presentation: PDF

Our paper entitled Protecting People from Phishing: The Design and Evaluation of an Embedded Training Email System was presented at CHI2007.
      Paper: PDF (CHI 2007) Presentation: PPT

Was just awarded a grant from Microsoft for their SensorMap program.

This fall, Robert Kraut and I will be teaching a course entitled The Social Web: Content, Communities, and Context (links to PDF of our course flier).

Our paper entitled Design Challenges and Principles for Wizard of Oz Testing of Location-Enhanced Applications is in the latest issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing.

My research interests are in:

• ubiquitous computing, especially mobile social services, mobile computing, context-aware computing, and location-based services
• usable privacy and security for ubicomp and anti-phishing

I used to do work in:

• sketch-based interfaces
• web usability and visualization tools
• rapid prototyping tools for the web and for ubicomp

Current Research Projects

Students I work with

I work with an amazingly talented group of students:

• Karen Tang, co-advised with Dan Siewiorek
• Jeff Wong
• Bryan Pendleton
• Polo Chau, co-advised with Christos Faloutsos
• Jialiu Lin, co-advised with Norman Sadeh

Some Stuff I Helped Create

Web Design Patterns

• Customer-Centered Design (Chap1 of our book, The Design of Sites)
• Pattern H1 - Process Funnel

Design Patterns for Ubiquitous Computing

• Ubicomp Design Patterns (45 design patterns)
• Bus maps for the Ubicomp Patterns (shows how patterns are related)

Rapid Prototyping and Evaluation Tools

• Topiary Location-enhanced App Prototyping Tool (source and executable)
• DENIM Web Rapid Prototyping Tool (source and executable)
• WebQuilt Remote Evaluation and Visualization Tool (source and executable)
• SATIN toolkit for sketch-based user interfaces (source code)

Instructor Guides

• Teaching Usable Privacy and Security, with Lorrie Cranor and Mike Reiter

Anti-Phishing Phil

• Anti-Phishing Phil game

Writings and Web Pages Maintained

Some web pages I help take care of:

• Grad School Advice Page (popular)

Some opinions:

• How Little Web Sites Have Changed Over the Past 6 Years
• Web 2.0 and Research
• Can we use Massively Multiplayer Games for Good?
• Watch Ed Chi get Kicked in the name of research (Yes, I actually like Ed :)
• Famous Rejected Papers

Teaching

Courses taught at Carnegie Mellon University:

• Fall     2007 - The Social Web, with Bob Kraut
• Spring 2007 - Usable Privacy and Security
• Spring 2007 - Research Topics in Ubiquitous Computing
• Fall     2006 - Software Architectures for User Interfaces
• Spring 2006 - Usable Privacy and Security
• Spring 2006 - Undergraduate HCI Project
• Fall     2005 - Software Architectures for User Interfaces
• Spring 2005 - Undergraduate HCI Project
• Fall     2004 - Research Topics in Ubiquitous Computing

Past courses taught at University of California at Berkeley:

• Inventing The Future: User Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation (2001 2002 2004)
• Spring 2001 - Freshman Seminar: The Past, Present, and Future of Interactive Computing

Service

• Program Co-Chair SOUPS 2008, SOUPS 2007
• Guest Editor IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Security & Privacy
• Program Committee HotMobile 2008, HotMobile2007, WMCSA2006 (renamed to HotMobile)
• Program Committee SOUPS 2006
• Program Committee Mobisys2006
• Program Committee CHI2006, CHI2005
• Program Committee UIST2005, UIST2004
• Organizing Committee SOUPS 2005 (Usable Privacy and Security)
• Program Committee Context 2005
• Program Committee IUI2005 (Intelligent User Interfaces)

Odds and Ends

"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."
  — Dave Barry

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, and don't assign them tasks and give orders. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless immensity of the sea."
  — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big."
  — Daniel Burnham

"Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."
  — Alfred North Whitehead

I co-authored a book on web site design, which uses the notion of web design patterns as a way for facilitating the construction of customer-centered web sites. Check out the web site for our book The Design of Sites.