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Designing, implementing, and maintaining software is essentially a human and social activity, because humans need to coordinate (i.e., collaborate and communicate) during the entire software development process. What team structures are beneficial for successful coordination? How do individual factors influence the coordination and team structure? In PICCARD, we will find answers to such questions, which will help us to suggest optimal team structures based on individual factors and the nature of the software project (e.g., safety-critical software components in cars, mobile games), which eventually will pave the way to secure and reliable software.

Biometrics++ strives to develop novel authentication mechanisms based on behavioral biometrics. The project is motivated by the fact that today we store sensitive data on more devices and access such data more often than ever before – everytime and everywhere. At the same time, most authentication mechanisms today require us to remember and explicitly enter passwords, hence not only creating a significant overhead during authentication but also forcing us to use more passwords than we can remember. The increasing number of sensors in our personal devices as well as in our environment allow us to address this challenge. By analyzing users’ behavior in detail, novel approaches to authentication become possible. At the focus of this project, we lay the conceptual as well technical foundations for novel schemes based on behavioral biometrics and investigate the users’ view on such schemes. In this way, we envision authentication schemes to not only become more secure and more usable but by leveraging interaction data, in particular during authentication, we are also able to enhance interfaces we use in our everyday life through adaptation to user and context.