SPICE: A Software Tool for Studying End-user’s Insecure Cyber Behavior and Personality-traits

Author

Anjila Tamrakar, University of New OrleansFollow

Date of Award

Summer 8-2016

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Program

Computer Science

Department

Computer Science

Major Professor

Irfan Ahmed

Second Advisor

Golden G. Richard III

Abstract

Insecure cyber behavior of end users may expose their computers to cyber-attack. A first step to improve their cyber behavior is to identify their tendency toward insecure cyber behavior. Unfortunately, not much work has been done in this area. In particular, the relationship between end users cyber behavior and their personality traits is much less explored. This paper presents a comprehensive review of a newly developed, easily configurable, and flexible software SPICE for psychologist and cognitive scientists to study personality traits and insecure cyber behavior of end users. The software utilizes well-established cognitive methods (such as dot-probe) to identify number of personality traits, and further allows researchers to design and conduct experiments and detailed quantitative study on the cyber behavior of end users. The software collects fine-grained data on users for analysis.

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Recommended Citation

Tamrakar, Anjila, "SPICE: A Software Tool for Studying End-user’s Insecure Cyber Behavior and Personality-traits" (2016). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2236.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2236