Investigating the Usability of Tor Browser

David Fifield, Linda Lee, Serge Egelman, David Wagner

What this is for:

#####1) CS261 project: http://www.icir.org/vern/cs261n/project.html

• Status Report: Friday Apr 10.
• Final Paper: Tuesday May 12, at 1PM.

#####2) HOTPETS2015: https://www.petsymposium.org/2015/hotpets.php

• 2-page experiment overview: Friday April 24th.

Experiments:

• UX Sprint to test download and general understanding of Tor
• Large-scale study of testing Tor's usability for censorship circumvention (for PETS and CS261n)
• Design and evaluation of improvements to Tor browser

General TODOs:

• Review/submit IRB protocol
• Hack together PETS paper
• Write CS261n paper

David

• Use this if you want.
• Crossing things off helps me. Plus we can tell each other what we are up to.

Linda

• Finish necessary forms (recruitment, consent, etc.) for IRB
• Outline the CS261n paper.
• Outline the PETS2015 paper.

Serge