Research Interests

Research interests: usable security; human-computer interaction; eye tracking; web technologies; affective feedback; open-source intelligence, secure software development.

Research Supervision

  • Tolga Ünlü – Attack Awareness Within Web Applications (PhD Student)

Funding

Selected Funding

  • 2019- European Commission – Horizon 2020 FORESIGHT (Co-Principle Investigator Abertay University).
  • 2019- Law Enforcement Consultancy Work (Principle Investigator).
  • 2018- Recipient of a Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Cyber Nexus Research Exchange award (Principle Investigator).
  • 2018- Awarded a Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant for a project entitled “Exploring the impact of embodied agents on phishing awareness” (Principle Investigator).
  • 2014- Collaborative Innovation Funding, Informatics Ventures. Secured preliminary funding to perform a market study investigating the requirements needed for a piece of Open Source Intelligence software (Principle Investigator).
  • 2012- Recipient of a competitive Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) prize studentship award of 3.5 years to support PhD work (2012-2016).

Invited Talks

  • Invited speaker- Human-Computer Interaction and Usable Security, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, (March 2021)
  • SIPR International Policing Conference 2019- Digital Policing: Ethical Challenges Regarding the Role of Technology in Policing (talk title: “Improving Security Awareness Through Gamification Techniques”, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (December 2019)
  • NERD.nrw Summer School on Human-Centered System Security (speaking on Human-Centered Cyber Security and the Role of Gamification), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, (September 2019)
  • Invited speaker- Promoting Cyber Security Awareness via Gamification (May 2019), Workshop on Serious Games for Cyber Security. Edinburgh, UK.
  • Invited speaker- Meet the Expert talk (February 2019), Skills Development Scotland (SDS) – Cyber Skills Programme