Lynne Coventry

Lynne Coventry is the Director of PaCT Lab (Psychology and Communication Technology) at the University of Northumbria. Lynne is best known for her work on usable security, particularly biometrics. Her research interests are varied and she is currently involved in research exploring the role of communication technology in the lives of older adults to facilitate mobility and inclusion, the role of trust in student’s use of online information, the usability of medical products and the design of usable security. She is an applied researcher who enjoys working in multidisciplinary teams to solve real problems. She is keen to explore new ways of integrating psychology into design and technology development processes.

She  has  a multidisciplinary background with a BSC in Psychology and Computing Science, an MSc in Software Engineering and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction.  While her early career was spent as a research fellow and lecturer at Stirling University, Heriot Watt and Dundee university, the majority of her career has been as a researcher within Industry (both computing and medical products) working to incorporate understanding of people, their use and acceptance of technology into the requirements and design process.

Lynne is a founding member of the Scottish Usability Professional Association and previous vice president. Lynne is a founding member of STEPS, and current Editor of Interfaces (A British Computer Society Magazine) and a reviewer for a number of international conferences and journals.

Funding
Principal Investigator
2007 KTP Napier and NCR, Biometrics (£185000)
2005 KTP Napier and NCR, Personalisation (£110000)
1994 Jisc and British Telecom: The role of video conferencing in Higher Education (£50,000)

Contributing researcher
2010 JiSC Investigating students trust in online information: The Google conspiracy (£25,000)
2009 Technology Strategy Board/EPSRC, ‘Ambient Assisted Living: Freedom to Roam’  (£285,000).

Publications (current – 2000)

Book chapters

Coventry, L.  Human Factors.  In Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security. B. Rosenberg (ed).  Chapman and Hall. August 2010.

Coventry, L. Usable Biometrics, Chapter in Crannor, and Garfinkel, S (eds). Usability and Security, 2005

Editorials

Coventry, L., Biometrics, self service and the user, Biometrics Technology Today, Nov/Dec 2004

Refereed journals

Pickard, Alison J., Gannon-Leary, Pat and Coventry, Lynne (2011). Trust in ‘e’: an investigation of users’ trust in information resources in the web environment. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Liu, Z, Coventry, L, Johnson, G, Zhang, H and Chen, J. The people’s machine: Automatic Teller Machines in China. User Experience, 6, 2, 18-22. 2007.

De Angeli, A., Lynne Coventry, Graham Johnson and Karen Renaud, Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Exploring the feasibility of graphical authentication systems. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 63, Issues 1-2, July 2005, Pages 128-152

For a full list of publications please click here.

Patents

Worldwide Patent (2001) 003086. Portable terminal
Japanese Patent (2010) JP2010042261 Analyte testing method and system
2009 Chinese Patent CN101398962, Self Service Terminal
US Patent (2003) 0120572 Monitoring and representing financial targets  
US Patent (2002) 0060241 Self Service Terminal
US patent (2001) 0049660 Self Service Terminal
US Application (2009) 0107815 Privacy enabled keypad
US Application (2009) 0083182 Self Service Terminal
US Application (2007) 0138256 Enhanced accessibility of SSTs