Excellence in Research: Teaching Problem-Solving and Deductive Skills to K-12 Students Through a Forensics Course Based on Mobile Devices

卓越的研究：通过基于移动设备的取证课程向 K-12 学生教授解决问题和演绎技能

• 批准号: 1827091
• 负责人: Frances Dancer
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827091&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Excellence; Research; Teaching; Problem; Solving

Malicious and criminal acts occur every day using technologies such as mobile phones. There is a shortage of trained, workforce-ready forensics analysts who are skilled and knowledgeable of smartphone use, cybercrimes, and mobile cybersecurity. This project explores an organizing structure to conduct forensic analysis of mobile phones to address the gap between proliferation of crimes using smartphones as tools and preparation of skilled analysts to address such crimes. The investigator will test several research questions to explore models to isolate user actions such as file deletions and modifications. The resulting process and framework will be independent of model and type of phone. This investigator and senior personnel will also implement a summer camp for middle school students, grades 6- 8, and will develop a course in mobile digital forensics for undergraduate students. The project focuses on enhancing an existing process model, Platform Independent Process Model (PIFPM), as a framework for analysis of smartphones, regardless of make or model. Experiments are proposed to resolve functionality by contrast, comparing operating systems, state changes via file paths, and classifying degrees of contamination using statistical models. A Mobile Device Forensics Detective Camp will be developed as a joint effort between Jackson State University and the Jackson Public Schools district, with a focus on middle school grades 6-8. Undergraduate research assistants will participate in a Near-Peer mentoring joint program between the university and the school district during the summer camp. A course will be developed for junior- and senior-level undergraduates in the curriculum. The evaluation plan includes tracking computer science majors at JSU in terms of the impact of the activities on increases of underrepresented students, especially women. Additionally, a logical model is provided that aligns inputs and activities with impacts on middle school students? perceptions of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as performance on selected metrics from the school system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

使用移动电话等技术的恶意和犯罪行为每天都会发生。缺乏训练有素、具备充足劳动力的取证分析师，他们熟练且了解智能手机使用、网络犯罪和移动网络安全。该项目探索了一种对手机进行取证分析的组织结构，以解决使用智能手机作为工具的犯罪扩散与准备熟练的分析师来解决此类犯罪之间的差距。研究人员将测试几个研究问题，以探索隔离用户操作（例如文件删除和修改）的模型。由此产生的流程和框架将独立于手机的型号和类型。 该研究人员和高级人员还将为 6-8 年级的中学生举办夏令营，并将为本科生开发移动数字取证课程。该项目的重点是增强现有的流程模型，即平台独立流程模型（PIFPM），作为分析智能手机的框架，无论品牌或型号如何。建议通过实验来通过对比、比较操作系统、通过文件路径进行状态更改以及使用统计模型对污染程度进行分类来解决功能问题。杰克逊州立大学和杰克逊公立学区将共同开发移动设备取证侦探营，重点针对中学 6-8 年级。本科生研究助理将在夏令营期间参加大学和学区之间的近同伴指导联合项目。课程中将为低年级和高年级本科生开发一门课程。评估计划包括跟踪 JSU 计算机科学专业的活动对代表性不足的学生（尤其是女性学生）增长的影响。此外，还提供了一个逻辑模型，将投入和活动与对中学生的影响保持一致？对计算机科学、计算机工程和电气工程的看法，以及学校系统选定指标的表现。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

WHO DONE IT?' A Multidisciplinary Mobile Device Forensic Framework: From Theory to Practice with Intermediate Students

谁干的？

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: USA
• 作者: Dancer, Frances C;Tanner, April L.;Thomas, Mya N.;Thomas, Mary M.
• 通讯作者: Thomas, Mary M.

Challenges of Incorporating a Mobile Device Forensics Detectives Summer Camp with Critical Thinking Amongst K-12 Students

将移动设备取证侦探夏令营与 K-12 学生批判性思维相结合的挑战

• DOI: 10.1109/csci54926.2021.00221
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI
• 作者: Dancer, Frances C.;Tanner, April L.;Thomas, Mary M.
• 通讯作者: Thomas, Mary M.

Determining Whether Apple, iOS, RIM, or Windows Are Contagions

确定 Apple、iOS、RIM 或 Windows 是否具有传染性

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Journal of research in higher education
• 作者: Dancer, F. C.