Michael Hitchens
Department of Computing
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Michael Hitchens is working in the department of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia.
Research Interest
My main research areas are video games and computer security. In videogames I am particularly interested in player experience, story and narrative and the relationship between player and player character. I have also examined development of the first person shooter over time in terms of setting, player character and the relationship between antagonists and real-world events. Much of my work is empirical, including observing and interviewing players on their in-game experiences. In computer security I focus on access control and the use of trust. My current projects examine access control and identity in the internet of things and access control and trust for software defined networks.
Publications
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Varadharajan V, Shankaran R, Hitchens M. Security for cluster based ad hoc networks. Computer Communications. 2004 Mar 20;27(5):488-501.
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Zhou L, Varadharajan V, Hitchens M. Achieving secure role-based access control on encrypted data in cloud storage. IEEE transactions on information forensics and security. 2013 Dec;8(12):1947-60.
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Tran H, Hitchens M, Varadharajan V, Watters P. A trust based access control framework for P2P file-sharing systems. InSystem Sciences, 2005. HICSS'05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on 2005 Jan 3 (pp. 302c-302c). IEEE.
