Promoting cyber security awareness via gamification

Lynsay Shepherd

Abstract

Modern society depends upon the Internet, allowing users access to online services such as social networks, Internet banking applications, and e-commerce websites. To ensure users behave in a safe and secure manner online, it is important for them to have an understanding of basic security measures. However, users often do not know how to make their online interactions secure. This talk will discuss the challenges of improving security awareness and how gamification techniques have the potential to address these issues. An exploratory study will be presented based on research conducted with a role-playing Android application which uses gamification techniques to educate users about password security.

Relevant paper: Scholefield, S., Shepherd L.A. (2019). Gamification Techniques for Raising Cyber Security Awareness. HCI International 2019. Florida, USA (arXiv preprint available https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08454).

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 22 May 2019
Event	Workshop on Serious Games for Cyber Security - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 21 May 2019 → 22 May 2019 https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/sgcs19/

Workshop

Workshop	Workshop on Serious Games for Cyber Security
Country	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	21/05/19 → 22/05/19
Internet address	https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/sgcs19/

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