Publications

Karen Renaud, Renette Blignaut, Isabella Venter. Designing Mobile Phone Interfaces for Age Diversity in South Africa: "One-World" versus Diverse "Islands" INTERACT 2013. Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013.
Karen Renaud and Joe Maguire. Shrinking the Authentication Footprint. HAISA 2013 Lisbon, Portugal, May 2013.
Wendy Goucher & Karen Renaud. Leaks by a Thousand Clicks: Examining the Growing Risk of Mobile Working. 12th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW) 11-12 July 2013
Karen Renaud. Introducing Computing Students to Scientific Experimentation. ITiCSE 2013, the 18th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. The University of Kent at Canterbury, 1-3 July 2013
I Venter, R Blignaut, K Renaud. Reaching out to Mobile Phone Rookies in Two Countries. 10th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education WCCE 2013 Torun, 2-5 July 2013
I Venter, R Blignaut, K Renaud. Bridge over the computer science gap. 10th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education WCCE 2013 Torun, 2-5 July 2013
Paul Cockshott and Karen Renaud. Information Technology: Gateway to Direct Democracy in China and the World. RICT International Critical Thought To Appear
Huda Al-Shuaily and Karen Renaud. SQL Pattern Organization and Presentation. First Workshop on Patterns Promotion and Anti-patterns Prevention (PPAP). 2013. Co-located with the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2013). Genova, Italy. 5 March.
Karen Renaud and Lewis Mackenzie. SimPass: Quantifying the Impact of Password Behaviours and Policy Directives on an Organisation’s Systems. To Appear in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
Gareth Renaud and Karen Renaud. Computing Science in the Classroom: Experiences of a STEM Ambassador. To appear in Italics, Magazine of the Higher Education Academy.
Karen Renaud and Wendy Goucher. HEALTH SERVICE EMPLOYEES & INFORMATION SECURITY POLICIES: AN UNEASY PARTNERSHIP? Information Management and Computer Security. 2012
Paul Cockshott, Karen Renaud and Tsvetelina Valcheva. DEMOCRATISING BUDGETARY DECISIONS WITH HANDIVOTE. 63rd Political Studies Association Annual International Conference. The Party's Over? 25 - 27 March 2013. City Hall Cardiff
Marcia Gibson, Karen Renaud. Marc Conrad, Carsten Maple. Music is the Key. Using our Enduring Memory for Songs to Help Users Log On. Chapter 8 in Strategic and Practical Approaches for Information Security Governance: Technologies and Applied Solutions. Ed: Manish Gupta, John Walp & Raj Sharman. IGI Global
Tim Storer, William Bradley Glisson, Karen Renaud. Patterns of Information Security Postures in Large Scale Socio-Technical Systems. The First International Workshop on Cyberpatterns Unifying Design Patterns with Security, Attack and Forensic Patterns 9-10 July 2012, Abingdon, Oxfordshire , UK
Karen Renaud & Joe Maguire. You Only Live Twice or The Years We Wasted Caring about Shoulder-Surfing. Alt-HCI. HCI 2012. Birmingham, UK. 12th -14th September
Tobie van Dyk, Karen Renaud, Judy van Biljon Moses – Method for Selecting Senior Mobile Phones: Supporting Design & Choice for the Elderly SAICSIT 2012. 1 – 3 October 2012. Centurion, Tshwane
Karen Renaud, Wendy Goucher HEALTH SERVICE EMPLOYEES & INFORMATION SECURITY POLICIES: AN UNEASY PARTNERSHIP? Information Management and Computer Security. To appear
Karen Renaud, Judith Ramsay. Judy van Biljon. Effectively Communicating by Email: an Oxymoron? SCIT Journal. To Appear
Mihai Ordean & Karen Renaud. Catch me if you can: Using Self-Camouflaging Images to Strengthen Graphical Passwords. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing. August 30 - September 1, 2012 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Helene Muller, Judy van Biljon, Karen Renaud. Information Visualization in Research Reporting: Guidelines for Representing Quantitative Data. SACLA Conference (Southern African Computer Lecturers Association). Thaba Nchu, South Africa. 1-3 July, 2012.
Karen Renaud. Blaming Noncompliance Is Too Convenient. What Really Causes Information Breaches? IEEE Security & Privacy. May 2012.
Karen Renaud. Privacy and the Citizen. In: Usability in Government Systems: User Experience Design for Citizens and Public Servants. Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (June 8, 2012)
Karen Renaud. User Issues in Security. In: Usability in Government Systems: User Experience Design for Citizens and Public Servants. Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (June 8, 2012)
Wendy Goucher & Karen Renaud. In A world of their own: Working on the Move. HCI 2011. Newcastle, UK. July, 2011
K Renaud & R Simpson. WHO is the Enemy? Interfaces. Quarterly Magazine of the BCS Interaction Group. Spring 2011
J Ramsay & K V Renaud. Using insights from email users to inform organisational email management policy. Behavior and Information Technology. To Appear, 2010 p10-11
Karen Renaud & Paul Cockshott. Handivote: Checks, Balances and Voiding Options. International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG). 3(3):273-295, 2010
K Renaud & H Crawford. Invisible, Passive, Continuous and Multimodal Authentication. Workshop on Mobile Social Signal Processing. 7 Sept 2010. Lisbon. Published by LNCS
Karen Renaud & T McBryan. How Viable are Stubblefield and Simon's Inkblots as Password Cues?. PUMP 2010. University of Abertay, Dundee. 6 Sept, 2010
Karen Renaud and Dora Galvez-Cruz. Privacy: Aspects, Definitions and a Multi-Faceted Privacy Approach. ISSA 2010. Johannesburg, South Africa. 2-4 August, 2010.
Mohamed Al Fairuz and Karen Renaud. Multi-Channel, Multi-level Authentication for More Secure eBanking. ISSA 2010. Johannesburg, South Africa. 2-4 August, 2010.
Karen Renaud and Mike Just. Examining User Responses to Association-Based Authentication. HCI 2010. University of Abertay, Dundee. 6-10 Sept, 2010
Marcia Gibson, Marc Conrad, Carsten Maple, Karen Renaud. Accessible and Secure? Design Constraints on Image and Sound Based Passwords. Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) June 28-30, 2010. London, UK
Karen Renaud and Paul Cockshott. Extending Handivote to Handle Digital Economic Decisions. BCS 2010 Visions conference . 13-16 April 2010, Edinburgh University
Ron Poet and Karen Renaud. 2009. An Algorithm for Automatically Choosing Distractors for Recognition Based Authentication using Minimal Image Types. The Ergonomics Open Journal. Special issue: Advances in interfaces
Judy van Biljon, Karen Renaud, 2009. Distance Education as enabler in crossing the digital divide: Will the Phoenix Fly? IDIA2009 Development Informatics Conference, 28-30 October 2009, Kruger National Park, South Africa (to be published).
K Renaud. Web Authentication using Mikon Images. World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business. August 25 - 27, 2009 Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
K Renaud. On User Involvement in Production of Images used in Visual Authentication. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 10 (2009) p1-15.
M Gibson, K Renaud, M Conrad. Authenticating me softly with "my" song. NSPW 2009. September 8-11, 2009. Pages: 85-100 The Queen's College University of Oxford, UK pdf
T K Chiew and K Renaud. A Component-Based Reverse Engineering Approach: Decomposing Web Pages to Facilitate Maintenance and Reusability. IASK International Conference "E-Activity and Leading Technologies 2009
K Renaud and J Maguire. Armchair Authentication. HCI 2009. Cambridge, UK.
K Renaud, T Cockshott and M Hair. Everyone Abandons - Eventually: Understanding the Online Shopping Experience. 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing. 20-23 July. Vienna, Austria.
Judy van Biljon and Karen Renaud. A Qualitative Study of the Applicability of Technology Acceptance Models to Senior Mobile Phone Users. To appear as Chapter in Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services. 2009
Karen Renaud and Judy van Biljon. Worth-Driven Mobile Phone Design for Older Users. Universal Access in the Information Society(UAIS). 2009
Ron Poet and Karen Renaud. A mechanism for Filtering Distractors for Doodle Passwords. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI). 23(5) 2009 p1005-1029.
Karen Renaud and Paul Cockshott. HandiVote: Simple, Anonymous, and Auditable Electronic Voting. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 2009 Volume 6, Issue 1 January, pages 60 - 80
Karen Renaud. Guidelines for Designing Graphical Authentication Interfaces. International Journal of Computer Security (IJICS). vol 3. number 1, 2009
Judith Ramsay, Karen Renaud and Mario Hair. Think Before You Link: Controlling Ubiquitous Availability. Interactions. Nov/Dec 2008.
Karen Renaud and Antonella De Angeli. Visual Passwords: Cure-All or Snake-Oil? CACM. Dec 2009.
Paula Kotze, Judy van Biljon and Karen Renaud. Mobile Phone Usage of Young Adults. 2008. Proceedings of the Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction Cairns, Australia, 8-12 December, 2008. p57-64
Karen Renaud and Judy van Biljon. Predicting Technology Acceptance by the Elderly: A Qualitative study. Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. 2008. Wilderness, South Africa. 6 - 8 October 2008
Judith Ramsay, Karen Renaud, Mario Hair and Samina Saddique . Having It All: How Students Combine Traditional and Digitally Mediated Communication. IADIS Web Based Communities 2008 (WBC 2008) Conference. Amsterdam, The Netherlands 24 - 26 July 2008 Long version here
Karen Renaud and Judith Ramsay. Colour-Coded PIN Pads Impair PIN Retention. Poster. Progress in Colour Studies (PICS08). 14-17 July, 2008. Glasgow, Scotland. PosterAbstract
K Renaud, A McBryan and P Siebert. PASSWORD CUEING WITH CUE(INK)BLOTS. IADIS Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 (CGV 2008) Conference. 24 - 26 July 2008 Amsterdam. The Netherlands. p74--81 pdf
J van Biljon and K Renaud. A Qualitative Study of the Applicability of Technology Acceptance Models to Senior Mobile Phone Users. International Workshop on Modeling Mobile Applications and Services (M2AS’08) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. 20 - 23 October 2008. LNCS Volume 5232/2008 p228-237
K Renaud, R Cooper and M Al Fairuz Support Architecture for Multi-Channel, Multi-Factor Authentication e-commerce 2007 IADIS International Conference e-commerce 2007 Algarve, Portugal, 7-9 December 2007Pdf
R Poet and K Renaud A mechanism for filtering distractors IGS 2007 Proc 13th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society Melbourne, Australia, 11-14 November 2007, p129-132Pdf
K Renaud and P Cockshott. Electronic Plebiscites. METTEG 2007 1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government Camerino (Italy), 27-28 September 2007Pdf
M Al Awadi and K Renaud. Success Factors in Information Security Implementation in Organisations IADIS International Conference e-Society 2007. Lisbon, Portugal. 3-6 July 2007Draft Pdf
M Hair, J Ramsay and K Renaud. Ubiquitous Connectivity & Work-Related Stress, 2008. Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices. Edited by Pavel Zemliansky and Kirk St.Amant. Medical Information Science ReferenceDraft Pdf
P Kotze and K Renaud. Do We Practise What We Preach in Formulating Our Design and Development Methods? "Engineering Interactive Systems 2007 (EIS 2007). Published in LNCS 4940 ", March 22-24, 2007, Salamanca, Spain
P Kotze, K Renaud and J van Biljon. Don't do this. Pitfalls in using anti-patterns in teaching human computer interaction principles. Computers & Education. 50, 3 (Apr. 2008)
A Nosseir, R Connor and K Renaud. Question-Based Group Authentication. Ozchi. 20-24 Nov, 2006. Sydney, Australia. Pdf
K Renaud and J Ramsay. Now what was that password again? A More Flexible Way of Identifying and Authenticating our seniorsBehaviour and Information TechnologySpecial Issue: Designing Computer Systems for and with Older Users. Volume 26, Issue 4 July 2007 , pages 309 - 322 Pdf
Karen Renaud and Elin Olsen. DynaHand: Observation-Resistant Recognition-Based Web Authentication IEEE Technology and Society. Special Issue on Usable Security and Privacy. 26(2):22-31 (2007) Article written by Technology Review about this paper and another article and one in German Pdf
K Renaud. A Process for Supporting Risk-Aware Web Authentication Mechanism Choice Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Special Edition. 2007. 92 (9), pp. 1204-1217 Pdf
M Hair, K Renaud and J Ramsay. The Influence of Self-Esteem and Locus of Control on Perceived Email-Related Stress. Computers in Human Behavior. 23 (2007) 2791-2803
Article about this in the Observer Copy of the paper
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K V Renaud, J Ramsay and M Hair You've got email. Shall I deal with it now? IJHCI. 21(3) Jan 1, 2007.
Kotze, P, Renaud K, Koukouletsos k, Khazaei B and Dearden A. 2006. Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Guidelines - Effective Aids to Teaching HCI Principles? in: Inventivity: Teaching theory, design and innovation in HCI - Proceedings of HCIEd2006-1 (First Joint BCS / IFIP WG 13.1 / ICS / EU CONVIVIO HCI Educators' Workshop, edited by E T Hvannberg, J C Read, L Bannon, P Kotze, W Wong, University of Limerick, ISBN: 1874653917, pages 115 - 120. Pdf
K V Renaud. Authentication - the Final Frontier. IST-Africa 2006 Conference. 03 - 05 May 2006, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.
T K Chiew & K V Renaud. Disassembling Web Site Response Time. ECITE 2005: The 12th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation. Turku, Finland 29-30 September 2005 pdf
K V Renaud. Evaluating Authentication Mechanisms. in Security and Usability. Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use Editors: Lorrie Cranor, Simson Garfinkel First Edition August 2005 (est.) ISBN: 0-596-00827-9
De Angeli, A., Coventry, L., Johnson, G., Renaud, K. 2005 . Is a picture really worth a thousand words? On the feasibility of graphical authentication systems. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, special issue: HCI research on Privacy and Security. Volume 63, Issue 1-2 (July 2005). Pages: 128 - 152 Pdf
Karen Renaud. Visuo-Biometric Authentication Mechanism for Older Users. Proc British HCI. September 2005. Edinburgh, Scotland. p167-182.
Karen Renaud. Quantifying the Quality of Web Authentication Mechanisms. A Usability Perspective. Journal of Web Engineering. 3(2) 2004 p95-123 pdf
Karen Renaud and Antonella De Angeli. My password is here! An investigation into Visuo-Spatial Authentication Mechanisms. Interacting with Computers. 16(6):1017-1041. 2004
Karen Renaud and Phil Gray. Making Sense of Low-Level Usage Data to Understand User Activities. SAICS 2004. Stellenbosch, South Africa. 4-6 October. Pdf
Judy van Biljon, Paula Kotze, Karen Renaud, Marilyn McGee and Ahmad Seffah. The Use of Anti-Patterns in Human-Computer Interaction - Wise or Ill-Advised? SAICS 2004. Stellenbosch, South Africa. 4-6 October. Pdf
Karen Renaud and Judy van Biljon. Teaching SQL - Which Pedagogical Horse for this Course? TLAD Workshop, July 2004. In Proceedings 21st British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol 3112. pp244-256 Pdf
Karen Renaud, Judith Bishop, Johnny Lo and Basil Worrall. Algon: from interchangeable distributed algorithms to interchangeable middleware. . SC 2004 Software Composition Saturday, April 3, 2004 (http://www.ida.liu.se/~uweas/sc2004). Workshop affiliated with ETAPS 2004 (http://www.lsi.upc.es/etaps04) Barcelona, Spain, March 28-April 4, 2004. To be published Pdf
Judy van Biljon & Karen Renaud. Bringing the User Into the Design Process - Incorporating User Context into HCI Patterns. Poster. HCI 2003. 17th Annual Human Computer Interaction Conference. Designing for Society. Bath, England. 8-12 Sept, 2003. pdf
Jim Liddell, Karen Renaud and Antonella De Angeli. USING A COMBINATION OF SOUND AND IMAGES TO AUTHENTICATE WEB USERS. Short Paper. HCI 2003. 17th Annual Human Computer Interaction Conference. Designing for Society. Bath, England. 8-12 Sept, 2003. pdf
Judy van Biljon and Karen Renaud. Zazu - Investigating the Differences between Interaction Approaches in Advisory Support Systems for Curriculum Planning. Short Paper. INTERACT 2003. Zurich, Switzerland. Sept 2003. pdf
Karen Renaud, Johnny Lo, Judith Bishop, Pieter van Zyl& Basil Worrall. Algon: A Framework for Supporting Comparison of Distributed Algorithm Performance. 11th Euromicro Conference on Parallel Distributed and Network based Processing. PDP 2003. Genoa, Italy. February, 5-7, 2003.
Karen Renaud. Experience with statically-generated proxies for facilitating Java runtime specialisation. IEE Proc Software. Vol 149. No 6, Dec 2002
Paddy Nixon & Karen Renaud. Harnessing Context to achieve dynamic management of end-points. Glasgow Context Group First Colloquium "Building Bridges: Interdisciplinary Context-Sensitive Computing". 9th September 2002, Senate Rooms, University of Glasgow
Judy van Biljon, Karen Renaud & Estelle de Kock. Zazu - Investigating the Differences between Experts and Novices in Using an Advisory Support Tool. Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. SAICSIT'2002. Pretoria, South Africa. 16-18 September 2002. Unisa Publ. ACM Series.
Tobias van Dyk & Karen Renaud. Task Analysis for E-Commerce and the Web. Chapter 12. THE HANDBOOK OF Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction. Edited by Prof. Dan Diaper & Prof. Neville Stanton. 2002. Techbooks, Fairfax, Virginia.
Judith Bishop, Karen Renaud & Basil Worrall. Composition of Distributed Software with Algon - Concepts and Possibilities. SC 2002. Affiliated with ETAPS 2002. April 6 - 14, 2002
Karen Renaud, John Barrow & Petra le Roux. Teaching Programming from a Distance - Problems and a Proposed Solution. SIGCSE Bulletin. Vol 33, December 2001 pdf
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Karen Renaud & Tobias van Dyk. Tailoring E-Commerce Sites to Ease Recovery after Disruptions. Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference.  COMPSAC 2001. Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 8-12, 2001.
Karen Renaud, Paula Kotze & Tobias van Dyk. A Mechanism for Evaluating Feedback of E-Commerce Sites. The first IFIP conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Government.  I3E. Zurich, Switzerland, 3-5 October, 2001.
Karen Renaud & Elme Smith. Passwords - Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them. 2nd South African Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI-SA 2001. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. 10-12 September 2001.
Karen Renaud, Paula Kotze & Tobias van Dyk. Introducing Metrics for Evaluating Usability Aspects of E-Commerce Sites. 2nd South African Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI-SA 2001. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. 10-12 September 2001.
Karen Renaud & Elme Smith. Jiminy: Helping Users to Remember Their Passwords. Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. SAICSIT'2001. Pretoria, South Africa. 25-28 September 2001.
Karen Renaud & Huw Evans. JavaCloak - Considering the Limitations of Proxies for Facilitating Java Runtime Specialisation. Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. SAICSIT'2001. Pretoria, South Africa. 25-28 September 2001. Pdf
Karen Renaud, John Barrow and Petra le Roux. A Strategy for Teaching Programming from a Distance. SACLA 2001. South African Computer Lecturers Association Conference. June 27-29 2001. Sizanani village, Bronkhortspruit, South Africa.
Karen Renaud, Huw Evans. JavaCloak: Reflecting on Java Typing for Class Reuse Using Proxies. Reflection 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2192 Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-42618-3 (p278-279)
Karen Renaud & Richard Cooper. Considering Possible Outcomes and the User's Environment in Designing User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems. User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems. UIDIS'01. ETH,  Zurich. 31 May - 1 June 2001.
Karen Renaud. Expediting Rapid Recovery from Interruptions by Providing a Visualisation of Application Activity. OZCHI 2000. Interfacing Reality in the New Millennium. December 4 - 8, 2000. Univ. of Technology Sydney, Sydney Australia. 
Karen Renaud and Richard Cooper. Feedback in Human-Computer Interaction - Characteristics and Recommendations South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. Annual Research Conference. Special Issue of the South African Computer Journal. Number 26. Cape Town. 1-3 November 2000. 
Karen Renaud and Huw Evans. JavaCloak: Engineering Java Proxy Objects using Reflection. NET.OBJECTDAYS 2000. Messekongresszentrum Erfurt, Germany. October 9-12, 2000.  
Karen Renaud. HERCULE: Non-invasively Tracking Java Component-Based Application Activity. 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ,ECOOP 2000. Sophia Antipolis and Cannes, France. June 12 - 16, 2000. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. Volume 1850, Issue , pp 0447->
Karen Renaud. HERCULE: Monitoring Component-Based Application Activity and Enabling Post-Implementation Tailoring of Feedback. 5th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems ( PDSE-2000). Limerick, Ireland. 10-11 June, 2000.
Karen Renaud & Richard Cooper. HERCULE: A Framework for Enhancing Feedback and Error Reporting in Component-based Systems. 3rd International Enterprise Distributed Computing Conference. EDOC'99. University of Mannheim, Germany. 28-30 September 1999.
Karen Renaud & Richard Cooper. An Error Reporting and Feedback Component for Component-based Transaction Processing Systems. User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems. UIDIS Edinburgh, 5-6 September 1999.
Karen Renaud . A Non-Invasive Mechanism for Monitoring Calls to Java Packages. Technical Report TR-1999-32. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. April 1999
Karen Renaud . Tracking Activity at the User Interface in a Java Application. Technical Report TR-1999-33. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. April 1999
Karen Renaud & Paula Kotze. The Recovery Problem in Multidatabase Systems - Characteristics and Solutions. South African Computing Journal. December 1997.
Karen Renaud & Paula Kotze. An Integrated Classification of Multiple Database Systems. South African Computing Journal. December 1996.

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Karen Renaud. A Comparative Study of Transaction Management Services in Heterogeneous Multidatabase Systems. MSc Thesis. University of South Africa. September 1996.

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Karen Renaud. An Investigation into the Use of HERCULE for Facilitating Peer Help in a Large Organisation. June 2001