Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024 - Day 1 | Kami Vaniea
Interdisciplinary invite-only conference discussing how people interact with security technology. The conference is designed to share ideas, questions, and promote interesting discussion that can lead to deeper understanding and future breakthroughs.
The full schedule lists all the speakers and the sessions they are in. There is also an attendees page that lists some recent works from each person.
I am live blogging the event and then doing some clean-up afterwards. So some entries may have poor spelling or not flow as nicely as I might like. I plan on doing a post-event pass to do some cleanup and add links.
Bonnie does work on warnings and how people’s brains process those warnings. We already know that people become habituated to warnings and click through them without seeming to read or properly engage. Bonnie’s work uses FMRI technology to look at brain activations while people interact with warnings. Such research helps us understand how the brain is processing warning content. The rough answer is that brains “generalize” the warning. Or in other words, the brain identifies a common case (the warning) and the most appropriate action to it (click next) and then applies that action in future cases thereby freeing brainpower to spend on other issues. Brains are surprisingly skilled and do far more work for us than we might expect.
Nancy researches how to teach security in higher education through serious games. There are many types of serous games and they cover a range of topics like math, typing, or even security and privacy. (Kami’s list of security games for example).
