HCII Team Earns Honorable Mention in Best Paper Competition
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A team of HCII researchers received an Honorable Mention award in the National Security Agency's (NSA) Third Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, which recognized the best scientific cybersecurity paper published in 2014. Papers were nominated between December 2014 and March 2015, and 50 nominations were received. Of those, three were selected for recognition — a winning paper and two honorable mentions.
The HCII team's paper, "Increasing Security Sensitivity With Social Proof: A Large-Scale Experimental Confirmation," was originally presented at the 2014 ACM Computer and Communication Security Conference and examined ways to motivate individuals to adopt security features on social media by showing information about their friends' use of security features. Authors included Ph.D student Sauvik Das, associate professors Laura Dabbish and Jason Hong, and Facebook's Adam Kramer.
"Particularly notable was the scale of this study, 50,000 people were studied, which is at a much larger scale than traditional human behavior studies," the competition's website says of the paper. "The work also showed scientific merit, analysis and the paper clearly documents the study, results and motivation of both the study and statistical approaches employed."
The Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition is sponsored yearly by NSA's Research Directorate and reflects the agency's desire to increase scientific rigor in the cybersecurity field. The competition recognizes current research that exemplifies the development of scientific rigor in cybersecurity research. This year's winning papers will be honored at a ceremony in the fall.
For more, visit the competition's website.