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CSIRO Industry PhD Scholarship: Useability Framework for Verifiable Credentials
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The Opportunity
The CSIRO Industry PhD Scholarship (iPhD) Program is an industry-focused, applied research scholarship and training program that brings together an industry partner, the university and CSIRO.
You will undertake a co-designed research project that will develop your ability to translate research into commercial outcomes.
You will get real-world experience and access to specialised expertise, equipment and training.
Our graduates develop transferable professional skills and are well positioned to work at the cutting edge of industry focussed research.
Scholarship details
The Program includes:
Project Title: Useability Framework for Verifiable Credentials
Project Description: Verifiable Credentials (VC) is an emerging decentralised identity management (IdM) solution designed to address the privacy and security challenges arising from traditional IdM solutions. Benefits to both identity providers and end users from the application of VC is well established in the literature, however real-life use cases of VC technologies remain troublingly low. Preliminary research suggests that this discrepancy between the benefits provided, and lack of adoption of VC is due to usability challenges, specifically their perceived lack of usability. Given users’ natural preference for simplicity and ease of use, there is a general tendency in the industry to avoid requiring users to perform complex operations, learn the extra subject matter, or make difficult decisions.
Therefore, the primary aim of this project is to examine the usability of current solutions and adopt a mixed methods approach to develop a usability framework to provide guidance for the development of highly usable verifiable credentials solutions.
Project supervisors:
CSIRO
CSIRO supervisor: Surya Nepal
Business Unit: Data 61
Research program: Human Centric Security
Email address: surya.nepal@data61.csiro.au
University
University supervisor: Robin Doss
Deakin University
Email address: robin.doss@deakin.edu.au
Faculty: Science, Engineering and Built Environment
School: Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI)
Industry
Company name: BUPA HI PTY LTD
Website: www.bupa.com.au
Location:
Overview of who we are looking for
The ideal student will:
It also also desirable that the student has:
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply you must:
Applications will be assessed on:
About CSIRO
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Further information about the CSIRO Industry PhD Program can be found at: www.csiro.au/iphd
How to Apply:
CSIRO is not accepting applications. Please email an expression of interest, CV and all transcripts to CSRI.
For details on how to apply, please see website at: HDR Scholarship - Verifiable Credentials | Deakin
Applications close: 30 November 2022, 5:00pm AEDT