Description: About Cori Faklaris. Human-computer interaction, user experience design, social computing, psychometrics, usable privacy and security. Assistant professor at UNC Charlotte working on human factors of misinformation and social cybersecurity.
I am a scholar in human-computer interaction and assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where I direct the Security and Privacy Experiences (SPEX) research group.
I work in usable privacy and security. My focus is on understanding how people's security attitudes and social environments weigh in their decision to adopt - or not adopt - secure behaviors (such as sharing passwords securely or ignoring UX cues to scams and "fake news"). I employ a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods from social science, computer science, and design. My work also is informed by prior experiences as a journalist, IT/UX specialist, and social media manager.
In 2018-19, I created the SA-6 security attitude scale . SA-6 is a six-item, self-report measure of a person's engagement with and attentiveness to cybersecurity measures. You are free to use it with attribution . Also, see my SA-13 inventory and the associated working paper for items measuring resistance and concernedness.
Social Cybersecurity research group at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Uni
SPEX - Security and Privacy Experiences research group in the Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computi