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Job: One Postdoctoral and two Ph.D. scholarships on ubiquitous/pervasive
usability and security

The Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering (LabUSE) at the
University of Madeira, in 
partnership with Carnegie Mellon's Usable Privacy and Security
laboratory (CUPS) is seeking high-
quality candidates to work in the area of ubiquitous/pervasive usability
and security, with a 
particular focus on phishing.

Candidates should have a strong background in computer science, and we
particularly welcome 
applicants with a background in either security, ubiquitous systems or
usability methods. 
Applicants should demonstrate both theoretical and practical interests,
should be able to carry out 
team work and have excellent spoken and written English.

The successful candidates will work closely with members of LabUSE and
CUPS.  The appointment 
to these posts will be full-time with a negotiable start date.

Potential candidates should contact Prof. Vassilis Kostakos
([log in to unmask]) with a cover letter 
and CV, and they will be advised how to proceed with their application.
Informal enquires are 
welcome.

There will be two rounds of applications, with deadlines of June 12 and
September 6 respectively.  
These scholarships are open to EU citizens only.



About LabUSE
LabUSE (http://www.labuse.org) is a unique research and development
initiative dedicated to 
making technology more useful, more usable, and more accessible.  The
Laboratory for Usage-
centered Software Engineering is a unique research and development
initiative dedicated to 
making technology more useful, more usable, and more accessible. Lab:USE
is a research unit in 
the Department of Mathematics and Engineering at the University of
Madeira. Members of Lab:USE 
also have responsibilities in teaching in the various courses of the
department, in particular in the 
Professional Master of Human-Computer Interaction that is offered in
collaboration with the HCI 
Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008, Lab:USE has once again
expanded and now 
consists of 15 experienced researchers representing no less than 11
different nationalities.


About CUPS
The CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (http://cups.cs.cmu.edu)
brings together 
researchers working on a diverse set of projects related to
understanding and improving the 
usability of privacy and security software and systems. The privacy and
security research 
community has become increasingly aware that usability problems severely
impact the 
effectiveness of mechanisms designed to provide security and privacy in
software systems. Indeed, 
one of the four grand research challenges in information security and
assurance identified by the 
Computing Research Association in 2003 is: "Give end-users security
controls they can 
understand and privacy they can control for the dynamic, pervasive
computing environments of 
the future." This is the challenge that CUPS strives to address. Our
research employs a 
combination of three high-level strategies to make secure systems more
usable: building systems 
that "just work" without involving humans in security-critical
functions; making secure systems 
intuitive and easy to use; and teaching humans how to perform
security-critical tasks.


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