REU Site: HCISec - Enhancing Undergraduate Research in Modern Human Computer Interaction Security and Privacy

这一CISE本科生研究经验(REU)网站奖资助了马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校的一个新的REU网站。每年夏天，来自全国各地的本科生将致力于挑战与人机交互(HCI)和隐私相关的研究问题。学生将与教师导师合作，使用工具和技术来解决及时和重要的问题。这些学生将调查针对人类行动模式的威胁，例如使用摄像头监视触摸输入或其他与我们社会中普遍存在的技术的日常互动。这个网站应该有助于培养计算机专业人员，他们能够构建安全可靠的未来计算系统和应用程序，我们都可以放心地使用这些系统和应用程序。REU的经验为学生提供了在快速发展和影响我们所有公民的领域追求计算职业和研究的基础和灵感。该项目由网络兵团(R)：服务奖学金项目共同资助。该团队将利用与历史上的黑人学院和大学以及非研究型大学的合作伙伴关系，从传统上在计算机科学领域代表性不足的群体中招收本科生。该网站包括一个重要的研究部分，结合了为参与的本科生提供的职业发展机会。新的人机界面技术为用户隐私和安全带来了新的威胁。学生将研究与防御相关的方法，以使用安全手指鼠标和其他对策等技术来缓解这些威胁。由此产生的研究可能有助于与维持安全和值得信赖的网络空间有关的研究。最终目标是在未来不断发展的全球社会中，为发展一支在对国家安全至关重要的领域拥有专门知识的多样化科学队伍作出贡献。

This CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award funds a new REU Site at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Each summer, undergraduate students from across the nation will work on challenging research problems related to human computer interaction (HCI) and privacy. Students will work with faculty mentors to use tools and techniques to solve problems that are timely and important. The students will investigate threats against human-action modalities, such as using cameras to spy on touch input or other common everyday interactions with technologies pervasive in our society. This site should help develop computing professionals who can build future computing systems and applications that are secure and trustworthy and that we can all use with confidence. This REU experience provides students with the foundations and inspiration to pursue computing careers and research in areas that are rapidly evolving and impacting all of our citizens. This project is co-funded by the Cyber Corps (R): Scholarship for Service Program.The team will use partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and with non-research universities to recruit undergraduate students from groups traditionally under-represented in computer science. The site includes a significant research component combined with professional development opportunities for the participating undergraduate students. New HCI technologies create new venues of threats to user privacy and security. Students will investigate defense related approaches to mitigate these threats using techniques such as a secure finger mouse and other countermeasures. The resulting research may contribute to the body of research related to sustaining secure and trustworthy cyberspace. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of a diverse scientific workforce with expertise in areas critical to national security in the evolving global society of the future.