Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
@Oleh Thanks, I have Freakonomics laying on my bookshelf. So I am interested in both sides of the story. @Jeremy Thanks a lot. You gave me some really nice new angles on the matter at hand. My friend Bas Raijmakers did his PhD at RCA on Design Documentaries, and somehow I think they could also fit in. I will contact you once I I have more concrete ideas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46059 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
Hi, Thanks for the excellent feedback. @Jodah: I didn't know we have slums here in Holland. ;-) But I will look into it, would be nice to invite one of the researchers to one of the classes. And thanks for pointing out the tipping point (no punch intended). After reading Blink! I stay away from Gladwell's books because IMHO he loses sight of science in his love for anecdotes. Nevertheless I would like to see if I can use this anecdote for spicing up the classes. @Adrian: Just joined the list. Thanks! @Dana: Wow. That would be very cool, please keep me posted. And I have just asked O'Reilly to sent me a desk copy of Security and Usability. Looks like a great to book to use for my classes. @William: Thanks, it indeed is my intention to put the user in to the equation of security technology. Great way to start on IxDA. If you have more thoughts. Please let me know. I appreciate all the help I can get. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46059 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
The Broken Window theory was analyzed and disproved in another (and better) popular science book -- Freakonomics. Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:29 AM, jodah jensen jodah.jen...@gmail.comwrote: This sounds like a very interesting course! This is not my area of expertise, so what Im about to suggest is perhaps already on the table, or too basic for the course. However, The Malcolm Gladwell book the Tipping Point, is an easy and provocative read. I believe the whole book might be indirectly relevant to the course, but his chapter about New York and the Broken Window theory is eye opening. Perhaps there are better sources to learn about this theory, but he does a pretty good job of illustrating its basic points in a 50 page chapter. I also heard about an on-going broken Window study happening in the Holland Slums right now. Just heard about it yesterday on the radio. Might want to look into that and get some current info on the matter. Cheers Jodah Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46059 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
Arjan, its *great* to see design approaches being explored in a program like this! another approach might be to bring the design *process* to the surface, to compliment things that focus on the subject matter (security) eg in your 2nd year course, you talk about influence perception of security.. you could imagine exploring this by setting projects that involve extreme cases of security perception and or influence; with outcomes that range from 'solutions' to 'provocations'. eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance at one extreme, work by Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby at RCA might also be inspiring here.. http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/index.html happy to discuss this more if you like. cheers jy Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
Just don't forget that your user's are part of the security of your system. Requiring a password system they have no choice but to write down, for example, is LESS secure than a password of their choice that has the option to be changed each month but can be set back to the same thing and is salted liberally. The first is more secure, if everyone was using safe password storing procedures. They won't. So the second at least isolates them if their password is cracked, which would have been the case in both scenarios and more common in the first. I'd say remembering that your users are cogs in the security machine and that they will sidestep anything they can in the name of convenience, is the most important thing you can teach any security student. Because the most technically secure systems are normally the ones you can walk into any building and nab a password for by lifting keyboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46059 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
My first question on this platform. Well here it goes: I am restructuring my Experience Design courses for 1st and 2nd year bachelor students of Security Technology and I would really appreciate your input. I've already renamed the course Design for Security, because it seems to convey the goal of the course better. So I want to use methods en techniques from the design discipline to create more secure/safe environments. Information security is not what the program is focused on. Main focus is to prevent and detect man made catastrophes and criminal behaviour, it is has gotten momentum after the 9/11 attacks. Students are going to work within the police, army, customs and other security technology consultancy or supplies companies. 1st year Don Norman's recent essay in Interactions, http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/when_security_gets_in_the_way.html would be the best description of what I want to accomplish in the first year. Mixing usability and user centered design with developing a security system. Get to know the user needs and goals in the security domain in order to achieve the highest possible acceptance of a security system. 2nd year Would be more about the funky stuff. I would like to address a coherent selection of the following aspects: - using design to increase/decrease perceived security - using design to make decisions more rational (less or more risk aversive, less cognitively biased) - using design to influence (persuade) people to act more moral. I've heard of an example that Yo Kaminaga, head of the design department of the RATP (Parisian Metro), used design to decrease (the costs of) vandalism and petty crime. Those kind of examples would be very nice to have in more detail. I have 4 - 6 months to work things out in concrete case studies and teaching materials. So I hope some IxDA-ers can help me out offering thoughts and examples. Thanks a lot! Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
This sounds like a very interesting course! This is not my area of expertise, so what Im about to suggest is perhaps already on the table, or too basic for the course. However, The Malcolm Gladwell book the Tipping Point, is an easy and provocative read. I believe the whole book might be indirectly relevant to the course, but his chapter about New York and the Broken Window theory is eye opening. Perhaps there are better sources to learn about this theory, but he does a pretty good job of illustrating its basic points in a 50 page chapter. I also heard about an on-going broken Window study happening in the Holland Slums right now. Just heard about it yesterday on the radio. Might want to look into that and get some current info on the matter. Cheers Jodah Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46059 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
On 25 Sep 2009, at 00:27, Arjan Haring wrote: My first question on this platform. Well here it goes: I am restructuring my Experience Design courses for 1st and 2nd year bachelor students of Security Technology and I would really appreciate your input. I've already renamed the course Design for Security, because it seems to convey the goal of the course better. [snip] Sounds fascinating! Just in case you've not come across it already - you might find the hci-sec mailing list a useful place to ask the questions (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hcisec/ ) Cheers, Adrian -- http://quietstars.com - twitter.com/adrianh - delicious.com/adrianh Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Input needed for courses in Design for Security
I am currently working on a project on usability and security. My first step is a literature review. That has revealed that there is a lot of research work out there, and several books. You might want to start by investing in a book called Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems That People Can Use, edited by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Simson Garfinkle (O'Reilly). It's a compilation of many seminal articles on the topic, many of which include examples. My deadline for completing the lit review is the end of November. If my project sponsor will allow, I'll share that with you when they're ready to go public. Dana d...@usabilityworks.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46059 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
