Invited Paper: Building a K-16-Industry Partnership to Train IT Professionals

Building on the importance of experiential learning for early career success, this paper presents a blueprint for a multiple-tier co- op approach, where students as early as high school will be selected by employers, will learn skills relevant to the employer’s needs, and will get hands-on experience while enrolled in a relevant educational program. This program is currently being developed by a partnership of industry professionals, university faculty, and local school district faculty and administrators in Anchorage, Alaska. After identifying a need for more and better qualified candidates for many unfilled IT positions, a consortium of hiring authorities in Anchorage initiated discussions with educators to better align curriculum with employers’ needs and to establish a pipeline in the education system for better recruiting, growing, and retaining technology talent. Two high school courses have been developed as a result of this collaboration and are being offered with direct assistance and involvement from the business community. In the courses, students are evaluated against a series of 13 micro-credentials relevant for IT professionals. An articulated pathway into university degrees and an extension of the pipeline into middle school are under development

The Role of Eye Gaze in Security and Privacy Applications: Survey and Future HCI Research Directions

For the past 20 years, researchers have investigated the use of eye tracking in security applications. We present a holistic view on gaze-based security applications. In particular, we canvassed the literature and classify the utility of gaze in security applications into a) authentication, b) privacy protection, and c) gaze monitoring during security critical tasks. This allows us to chart several research directions, most importantly 1) conducting field studies of implicit and explicit gaze-based authentication due to recent advances in eye tracking, 2) research on gaze-based privacy protection and gaze monitoring in security critical tasks which are under-investigated yet very promising areas, and 3) understanding the privacy implications of pervasive eye tracking. We discuss the most promising opportunities and most pressing challenges of eye tracking for security that will shape research in gaze-based security applications for the next decade

Secure Graphical Password System for High Traffic Public Areas

Graphical passwords are expected to be easier to recall, less likely to be written down and have the potential to provide a richer symbol space than text based passwords. For example, a user might authenticate by clicking a series of points on an image, selecting a series of tiles, or by drawing a series of lines on the screen [Davis et al. 2004]. An example of the tiled approach is the Real User Corporation’s PassFaces TM system [Real User, 2005] illustrated in Figure 1. For both text and graphical password entry systems the user needs to carefully enter the password in case a malicious user is observing the session via “shoulder surfing. ” Although some authors assume that graphical passwords will be entered on a small screen with a reduced observation angle [Jansen 2004], and thus dismiss the likelihood of shoulder surfing, this assumption is not always true. We propose to use a camera-based eye tracking system tha

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