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Keynote: Intelligent Interfaces: Challenges and Opportunities by Aaron Quigley
- Eye Tracking of the user
- DiffDisplays – Eye tracking and when you looked away from a screen it frooze it. When you looked back it gave you a summary/diff of what you missed
- Bought this down to the widget level, a widget got notification when user looking or away and could decide what to do
- Change Blindness (different from attention blindness)
- When phone far away simplify phone interface, more detail when closer
- People don’t see details of displays slowly fading in and out as distance from display changed
- Phone on table, screen up or screen down
- SpeCam – Facedown screen can have light and detect what it is sitting on. Guess material it is sitting on
- Accuracy same/better than a proper spectrometer
- MicroCam – Phone placed with screen face up
- Placement aware computing
- OmniSense
- 360 Camera
- Track what the user’s whole body is doing
- Tracks what is happening all around the user. Danger sensors, context aware output
- BreathIn control. Breath pattern to control phone
- User camera in a watch potion to detect handle gestures (looking at top/back of hand)
- RotoSwype – Smart ring to do gesture keyboard input
- RadarCat – Radar + Categorization
- More Socially acceptable that cameras everywhere and always on
- Used to detect material
- Complex pattern of reflection and absorption that returns lots of information
- Trained on 661 feature and 512 bins
- Radar signal can ever detect different colours. Different dyes interact differently
- Can detect if people are wearing gloves
- Application – Scales at self-checkout supermarket to detect what is being weighed
- Radar in shoe can recognise the surface and layers below (carpet on weed etc)
Passwordless Linux – Passkey and External IdP support in FreeIPA by Fraser Tweedale
- Passwords
- Users are diligent (weak reuse)
- Using passwords securely imposes friction and cognitive load
- Phishable
- Objectives – Reduce password picking risks, phishing, friction,frequency of login
- Alternatives
- 2FA, Smartcard, Passkeys / WebAuthn, Web SSO Providers
- 2FA
- HOTP / TOTP etc
- phishable
- Smart Cards
- Passkeys
- Better versions of MFA Cards
- Phishing resistant
- “passkey” term is a little vague
- Web SSO
- SAML, OAuth2
- Using an existing account to authenticate
- Some privacy concern
- Keycloak, Redhat SSO, Okta, Facebook
- Great on the web, harder in other context
- What about our workstations?
- pam has hooks for most of the above (Web SSO less common) or pam_sss does all
- FreeIPA / Red Hat Identity Management
- DEMO
Locknote: Who gets to work in STEM? And who is being left out? by Rae Johnston
- Poor diversity affects the development of AI
- False identification much higher by facial recognition for non-white people
- Feed the AI more data sets?
- Bias might not even be noticed if the developers are not diverse
- Only around 25% of STEM people are Women
- Only 15% of UK scientist came from Working Class backgrounds (35% of the population)
- 11% of Australians don’t have access to affordable Internet or don’t use it.
- The digital divide is narrowing but getting deeper. Increasing harder to function if you are not online
- Male STEM graduates are 1.8x more likely to be in jobs that required the array than women. Mush worse for indigenous people
Lightning Talks
- Creating test networks with Network Namespace
- Rerap Micron
- Haystack Storage System
- Time-bases key/value store
- AgOpenGPS
- Self Steering System for Tractors
- Common Network Myths
- End to end packet loss is the only thing that matters
- Single broadcast domain is a SPOF, broadcast storms etc
- Ping and ICMP is your friend. Please allow ping
- Don’t force 1500 MTU
- Asymmetric routing is normal
- non-standard port number doesn’t make you secure
- radio:console for remote radio
- WASM
- FileSender – Share large datasets over the Internet
