Yesterday Mattia Mossano presented his paper "Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of SEQR – a #Usable #Secure QR code Scanner" at #CHI2026 Thank you to all that attended the talk! #GraduateSchool @kastel
Greetings from #CHI2026 which started today in Barcelona. Tobias Hilt, Mattia Massano and Christian Mack join this year to represent SECUSO. Tomorrow Tobias Hilt and Mattia Mossano will present their papers "Why Johnny Checks but Doesn’t Alert: Reporting as the Missing Step in Verifiable Internet Voting" and "Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of SEQR – a #Usable #Secure QR code Scanner". #CHI @kastel @kitcybersec
🗣️Mattia Mossano will present our #paper about a #usable #secure QR code scanner tomorrow at #CHI2026! To support users against QR code #phishing, Mattia Mossano, Maxime Veit, Tobias Länge, Benjamin Berens, Filipo Sharevski and Melanie Volkamer developed #SEQR, the Security Enhanced QR code scanner.
SEQR's design is based on systematic reviews of both academic works and the MITRE ATT&CK database, and it was evaluated with 556 online participants, achieving 93.35% correct answers. SEQR is available, open source, on GitHub.
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Yesterday the German Pre-#CHI 2026 started at LMU Munich. The idea of the event is to provide an opportunity for #researchers from Germany and neighboring countries to present their accepted CHI 2026 papers and discuss them in a smaller circle. Tobias Hilt and Mattia Mossano will present the results of their papers "Why Johnny Checks but Doesn’t Alert: Reporting as the Missing Step in #Verifiable Internet #Voting" and "Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of SEQR – a #Usable #Secure QR code Scanner". The Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) will take place this year from April 13 to 17 in Barcelona, Spain. Registration for CHI is open and the program has already been published.
More information about Pre-CHI: https://www.hcilab.org/event/german-pre-chi-2026/
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German Pre-CHI 2026 – Event

In addition to Melanie Volkamer and Peter Mayer from #SECUSO, Benjamin Berens is also supporting the program committee of the #Symposium on #Usable #Privacy and #Security (#SOUPS2026) this year. As of January 2026, SOUPS has improved its ranking and is now rated as "A" #conference. Papers had to be submitted until February 19. The PC members and reviewers now have time until mid of March to assess the submitted papers. SOUPS will take place from August 23 to 26 in Hannover, Germany: https://soups.page/
SOUPS - Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

Melanie Volkamer and Peter Mayer, #SECUSO, are supporting the program committee of the #Symposium on #Usable #Privacy and #Security (SOUPS 2026) this year. In January, SOUPS has improved its #ranking and is now rated as "A" #conference. SOUPS will take place from August 23 to 26, 2026 in Hannover, Germany. Papers must be registered for submission by February 12, submission is open until February 19: https://soups.page/
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SOUPS - Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security

Vit senda á Usable LIVE um ein lítlan tíma. Evnið í dag er Webhooks https://www.youtube.com/live/liuyXcd8vPo #usable #flowcore #ai #developer
Usable LIVE - Webhooks

YouTube

By "#usable" I mean that you can #browse #profiles (instead of just beeing presented with what the #algorithm thinks you might be interested in, is profile text centred (and not picture centred), #search for #profile #text items, just be able to (send and) receive #messages even if I have not "liked back", ... -- #alovoa actually is pretty #unusable as I find it)

A #nonfederated #mastodon instance e.g. :-).

(½)

Does, as alternative to commercial #dating platforms, something like a #fediverse instance or other #noncommercial/ not-centrally-owned platform aimed at finding people for private connections exist which is #usable [s. reply]?

By "dating" I mean: Not limited to (but not excluding either) #romantic or #sexual encounters, but also to find #friends‍hips, "#platonic"/‍#aromantic #relationships, #buddies for #activities, etc.

And I wish openness for #queer‍ness, #nonbinary, #agender, #lgbt* etc.

2/5
Sweden and Finland have #accessibility in their digital DNA.

Other countries are still in an early stage or apply it in an inconsistent way.

Are we designing with accessibility because law says so, or because we want #products #usable for all people?