DB 2018 - Digital Behaviour Intervention for Cyber-Security

This symposium focuses on how digital technology can motivate and influence people to behave more cyber-securely. It brings together researchers, designers, developers and cyber-security experts interested in computers designed to change cyber-security attitudes and behaviours. The symposium covers a wide range of topics on persuasion, from behaviour intervention methods to persuasive argumentation and persuasive user interfaces. Digital behaviour interventions have a great practical potential. They have been applied in many domains, for instance to improve health and to move towards sustainable living. There has been much progress in the research community on digital behaviour interventions, as shown a.o. by the successful Persuasive conference series, a special issue of the UMUAI journal, and a successful series of workshops on Computational Models of Natural Argument (an area overlapping with persuasion). Recent developments within cyber security have emphasised the need for greater consideration and acknowledgement of human behaviour. The action or inaction of individual users has been demonstrated to have a severely negative impact on the security of organisations across all sectors of the economy. Hence, there has been a lot of interest in cyber-security behaviour, awareness and policy compliance. However, most of this work has not been routed within the behaviour change literature. There is currently an emergence of work that is beginning to combine these two strands of research, and this symposium will help to further build this community.