Welcome!

CATCUS/P Colloquium is a regional event for the Capital Area (and broader friends) to gather and discuss recent results in Usable Security and Privacy, broadly construed. The Colloquium consists of both research talks and networking events, and is hosted twice a year.

The next CACTUS will be held on December 8, 2023 at Georgetown University.

Registration

To register for the event, please fill out the following form.

Schedule

Below is a draft schedule of events and are subject to change. More details will be available as the event approaches.

Long talks are 12 minutes with 3 minutes of questions, and short talks are 3 minutes with 2 minutes of questions.

December 8, 2023

9:00am: Arrival Coffee, tea, light pastry and fruit
9:15am-9:30am: Welcome and Intros
9:30am-10:15am: Research Talks:
- Sunyup Park – University of Maryland, College Park
  - Airbnb hosts’ experiences and concerns using smart home devices on their property
- Wentao Guo – University of Maryland, College Park
  - Scientists are Users Too! Understanding De-identification Practices, Mental Models, and Challenges
- Collins W Munyendo, George Washington University
  - “I just stopped using one, and started using the other”: Motivations, Techniques, and Challenges When Switching Password Managers
10:15am-10:45am: Break
10:45am-11:45am: Invited Talk
- Matt Blaze, Georgetown University
11:45am-1:30pm: Lunch (provided)
1:30pm-1:45pm: BoF Brain Storm
1:45pm-2:30: WiP/Short Talks
- Julio Poveda – University of Marland, College Park
  - A Tale of Two Perspectives: Studying The Role of Social Media in Technology-Facilitated Abuse
- Elena Korkes – George Washington University
  - TBD
- Rachel Gonzalez Rodriguez – George Washington University
  - The content creation strategies and threat models of health privacy given by influencers
- Nicholas Farber – University of Maryland
  - How Entertainment Journalists Handle Online Hate and Harassment
- Lucy Simko – George Washington University
  - “When life gives you lemons…you cheat on your tests’’: Community-developed techniques for online exam proctoring evasion
- Elissa Redmiles – Georgetown University
  - Safe(r) Digital Intimacy: Technical Approaches to Reduce Image-Based Sexual Abuse
- Samuel Wiggins – University of Maryland
  - Creating a VR application to study perceptions of tracking and inference
- Micah Sherr – Georgetown University
  - Awareness and Chilling Effects at the Intersection of Mobile Device Management and Academia
- Weijia He – Dartmouth College
  - Contextualizing Interpersonal Data-Sharing in Smart Homes
2:30pm-2:45pm: Break
2:45pm-3:30pm BOF 1
3:30pm-4:15pm BOF 2
4:15pm-4:30pm: Closing Remarks

Location

All events will take place at Georgetown University in the Social Room of the Healey Family Student Center.

Directions and other information

Transportation information is available here, including information for driving and transit.

Visitor parking information for Georgetown is available here. The daily rate is $25. There is some street parking around the Georgetown campus, although much of it is limited to 2 hours and longer-term meters can be hard to find. We hear that in Burleith (near 37th and S), ticketing is “pretty light,” but of course that is at your own risk.

Virtual attendees

Please use the following zoom information to join:

https://umd.zoom.us/j/92612338021?pwd=bmJFZjdHR0RBQVptclZpRXBqaTVkZz09

Meeting ID: 926 1233 8021 Passcode: 117462