Cybersecurity

Noura Abdi

Fares Yousefi

Noura Abdi

Human-centred Security and Privacy Practices

 Human-centred Security & Information Privacy Practices.

Human-Centred Security focuses on understanding security vulnerabilities from human perspective. It is concerned with the design, development and evaluation of critical systems that interact with humans. This area of research aims to develop user-centred security methodologies. Beyond security, we review and analyze information privacy practices such as the privacy policies of systems and their compliance with privacy regulations e.g., GDPR.

Fares Yousefi

Cyber Security & Brain-Computer Interaction

Brain-Based Biometric Authentication 

Security plays a crucial role in our fast progressing digitalized world. Nowadays, human biometrics is considered the best security authentication method. Brain signal is another biometric, which recently is in concern of many researchers for authentication purposes. There are some challenges for any EEG authentication method; user-friendliness, collectability, privacy, uniqueness, and permanency or stability of the method through time. According to the studies, the stability of the brain pattern is one of the most important challenges in EEG-based authentication techniques. 

We applied two different brain patterns for authorization and authentication process using EEG signal; Picturizing pattern and deep breath pattern were used to improve security, stability through time regardless of brain situation. Therefore, users can authenticate themselves with visualizing a specific picture in their minds or using deep breath as a security pattern. The results showed that human brain signal can be used as a new biometric authentication, however the methods need to be improved according to the weakness of the brainwaves to acquire and the complications of the human brain in different situations. 

We aims to facilitate research endeavor into human biometrics authentications, healthcare, and IoT using EEG-based devices. more researches are in progress according to the mentioned subject to improve the use of human brain in different aspects in industry.   

In the press

Our work in review:

Noura Abdi: Health Voice Assistants: Factors Influencing Trust and Intention to Use. The 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW


Fares Yousefi:

 "A Robust Brain Pattern For Brain-Based Authentication Methods Using Deep Breath" in Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal

Recent Publications

Noura Abdi:


"In-Home Smart Devices: Quantifying Bystander Privacy Experiences and Social Norms in Different Situations" in Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (CI Symposium) (2022).


"Privacy norms for smart home personal assistants "  in  Proceedings of the 2021 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems  (2021).

"More than Smart Speakers: Security and Privacy Perceptions of Smart Home Personal Assistants"  in  SOUPS@ USENIX Security Symposium (2019).

"Human-centred security and privacy in Smart Home Personal Assistants (SPAs): understanding users' perceptions, preferences and skill developers' practices"   PhD thesis @ King's College London, UK (2021).


Fares Yousefi:

“A New Solution to the Brain State Permanency for Brain-Based Authentication Methods” in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (CAIDA) Conference (2021)

“A new strategy to predict image memorability and use mental imagery as a brain-based biometric authentication” in Neural Computing and Applications Journal, Springer (2020)

“Brain Signals as a New Biometric Authentication Method Using Brain-Computer Interface” in Encyclopaedia of Computer Graphics and Games Conference, Springer (2019) 

"Brain Signal as a New Biometric Authentication Method"  PhD Thesis @Liverpool John Moores University (2022)


Noura's resume

https://www.hope.ac.uk/si/dr-noura-abdi.html

Fares's resume

https://www.hope.ac.uk/si/dr-fares-yousefi.html