18th May 2021 | 13:00 - 17:00
Behavioural Science for Usable Security
This workshop is interdisciplinary with behavioural and computer scientists joining forces to tackle the challenges of usable cyber security, which requires a blend of technical requirements and understanding of human behaviour.
Using online electronic voting as a context and exemplar of systems with challenging security requirements, the workshop aims to explore how systems can be designed to engender secure user behaviour. The workshop is interdisciplinary with behavioural and computer scientists joining forces to tackle the challenges of usable cyber security, which requires a blend of technical requirements and understanding of human behaviour.
What determines users’ security decisions and behaviour? How may users’ behaviour benefit the design of security systems? How can we nudge users to take up important but inconvenient security procedures? These are some of the questions we will look to answer.
The workshop will feature keynotes from international experts in electronic voting, usability and behavioural science, and will host an interdisciplinary research incubator looking to solve concrete challenges. Scholars from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to take part. Speakers include;
Edward Flahavan, Policy Advisor, The Behavioural Insights Team
Daniel Read, Professor of behavioural economics, Warwick Business School
Peter Ryan, Professor of Applied Security, University of Luxembourg
Karen Renaud, Human Centred Security and Privacy, University of Strathclyde
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