In this paper, we studied people's smart home privacy-protective behaviors (SH-PPBs), to
gain a better understanding of their privacy management do's and don'ts in this context. We …

Privacy and security tools can help users protect themselves online. Unfortunately, people
are often unaware of such tools, and have potentially harmful misconceptions about the …

Reliably recruiting participants with programming skills is an ongoing challenge for empirical
studies involving software development technologies, often leading to the use of …

This article reports on a simulated phishing experiment targeting 6,938 faculty and staff at
George Mason University. The three-week phishing campaign employed three types of …

“There's an app for that” is perhaps the definitive rhetoric of our times. To understand how
users navigate the trade-offs involved in using apps that support a variety of everyday …

Despite the prevalence of data breaches, there is a limited understanding of individuals'
awareness, perception, and responses to breaches that affect them. We provide novel …

As more users adopt VPNs for a variety of reasons, it is important to develop empirical
knowledge of their needs and mental models of what a VPN offers. Moreover, studying VPN …

One widespread, but frequently overlooked, source of security information is influencer
marketing ads on YouTube for security and privacy products such as VPNs. This paper …

This paper studies the effects of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the
ability of firms to collect consumer data, identify consumers over time, accrue revenue via …

More and more learning apps like Duolingo are using some form of gamification (eg,
badges, points, and leaderboards) to enhance user learning. However, they are not always …