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.

该项目探讨了脱机线索和刺激的影响，表明在物理世界中存在其他人类，并且经常被我们的大脑无意识地处理，可以在网络空间中过度安全和隐私行为。该项目是围绕进化猜想的：人类已经进化以检测并应对其物理环境中的威胁，并开发出选择评估这些物理的知觉系统？当前物质风险的刺激。在网络空间中，相同的刺激通常是由第三方缺乏，屈服或故意操纵的。因此，在离线世界中通常会激活通常会激活的安全性和隐私问题受到限制，并且防御行为受到阻碍。虽然不可能直接测试这种猜想，但可以通过调查物理世界中的外部刺激对网络空间的安全性和隐私行为的影响来获得与猜想相容的间接证据。拟议的研究包括人类受试者控制的实验，研究了各种刺激或提示的影响。这项研究的意义是两个方面。首先，它试图提高对网络空间中安全和隐私决策的科学理解，这与物理世界中的安全和隐私更加困难，有时更困难。其次，通过调查可能严重破坏网络空间用户行为的因素，研究结果可以激发诱导更安全行为的系统的构建。