TWC SBES: Medium: Collaborative: Evolutionary Approaches to Privacy and Information Security

TWC SBES：媒介：协作：隐私和信息安全的进化方法

• 批准号: 1228684
• 负责人: Jeffrey Hancock
• 金额: $ 11.22万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1228684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TWC; SBES; Medium; Collaborative; Evolutionary

The project explores the influence that offline cues and stimuli, indicating the presence of other human beings in the physical world, and often processed unconsciously by our brains, can have over security and privacy behavior in cyberspace. The project is predicated around an evolutionary conjecture: Human beings have evolved to detect and react to threats in their physical environment, and have developed perceptual systems selected to assess these ?physical? stimuli for current, material risks. In cyberspace, the same stimuli often are absent, subdued, or intentionally manipulated by third parties. Hence, security and privacy concerns that would normally be activated in the offline world are restrained, and defense behaviors are hampered.While it is impossible to test such conjecture directly, indirect evidence compatible with the conjecture can be obtained by investigating the impact that external stimuli in the physical world have on security and privacy behavior in cyberspace. The proposed research consists in a stream of human subjects controlled experiments investigating such impact of various sets of stimuli or cues. This significance of this research is two-fold. First, it attempts to advance the scientific understanding of what makes security and privacy decision making in cyberspace uniquely different from, and sometimes more difficult than security and privacy in the physical world. Second, by investigating a factor that may significantly disrupt user behavior in cyberspace, the research findings could inspire the construction of systems that induce more secure behavior.

该项目探讨了离线线索和刺激的影响，表明其他人在物理世界中的存在，并且通常由我们的大脑无意识地处理，可以对网络空间中的安全和隐私行为产生影响。该项目是围绕着一个进化的猜想：人类已经进化到检测和反应的威胁，在他们的物理环境，并已开发出感知系统选择评估这些？身体上的刺激当前的重大风险。在网络空间中，同样的刺激往往是缺席，抑制，或故意操纵的第三方。虽然无法直接验证这一猜想，但通过研究物理世界的外部刺激对网络空间安全和隐私行为的影响，可以获得与这一猜想相一致的间接证据。拟议的研究包括一系列人类受试者控制的实验，调查各种刺激或线索的影响。这项研究的意义是双重的。首先，它试图推进科学的理解，是什么使网络空间中的安全和隐私决策与物理世界中的安全和隐私决策截然不同，有时甚至更困难。其次，通过调查一个可能严重破坏网络空间中用户行为的因素，研究结果可以激发构建诱导更安全行为的系统。