Kandha Sankarpandian

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Sankarpandian, Kandha, Little, Travis and Edwards, W. Keith (2008): Talc: using desktop graffiti to fight software vulnerability. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1055-1064. Available online

With the proliferation of computer security threats on the Internet, especially threats such as worms that automatically exploit software flaws, it is becoming more and more important that home users keep their computers secure from known software vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, keeping software up-to-date is notoriously difficult for home users. This paper introduces TALC, a system to encourage and help home users patch vulnerable software. TALC increases home users' awareness of software vulnerabilities and their motivation to patch their software; it does so by detecting unpatched software and then drawing graffiti on their computer's background wallpaper image to denote potential vulnerabilities. Users can "clean up" the graffiti by applying necessary patches, which TALC makes possible by assisting in the software patching process.

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Publication period:2008-2008
Publication count:1
Number of co-authors:2



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Kandha Sankarpandian's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

W. Keith Edwards:44
Travis Little:1


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W. Keith Edwards:1
Travis Little:1

 

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The computer can be thought of from the perspective of its technology [...] from the field of computer science. Or it can be thought of as a social tool, a structure that will change social interaction and social policy, for better or for worse. It can be thought of as a personal assistant, where the goals and intentions of the user become of primary concern. It can be viewed from the experience of the user, a view that changes considerably with the task, the person, the design of the system. The filed of human-computer interaction needs all these views, all these issues, and more besides.

-- Stephen Draper and Donald Norman. In "User Centered System Design" (1986) p. 1

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