Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2014)
I’m at SHB 2014: the Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. This is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the human side of security. The fifty people in the room include psychologists, computer security researchers, sociologists, behavioral economists, philosophers, political scientists, lawyers, anthropologists, business school professors, neuroscientists, and a smattering of others. It’s not just an interdisciplinary event; most of the people here are individually interdisciplinary.
I call this the most intellectually stimulating two days of my years. The goal is discussion amongst the group. We do that by putting everyone on panels, but only letting each person talk for 5-7 minutes The rest of the 90-minute panel is left for discussion.
The conference is organized by Alessandro Acquisti, Ross Anderson, and me. This year we’re at Cambridge University, in the UK.
The conference website contains a schedule and a list of participants, which includes links to writings by each of them. Ross Anderson is liveblogging the event. It’s also being recorded; I’ll post the link when it goes live.
Here are my posts on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth SHB workshops. Follow those links to find summaries, papers, and audio recordings of the workshops. It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this for seven years.
CallMeLateForSupper • June 9, 2014 6:56 AM
“Bruce Schneier, Harvard Law School: Our Security Models with Never Work – No Matter What We Do”
Surely a typo; a security model with Never Work would be counterproductive. 😉
Although I winced at references – both explicit and implied – to psychology, I am nevertheless interested in a number of the topics. Would like to be a fly on the wall. Years ago I lived just twenty minutes from Cambridge, but I was an indestructable and poor student with no interest in security. Today I live a good eight hours from Bean Town. (sigh) I must “wait for the book”.