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The Role of the Crowd in Countering Misinformation: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Infodemic
Nicholas Micallef, Bing He, Srijan Kumar +2
Fact checking by professionals is viewed as a vital defense in the fight against misinformation.While fact checking is important and its impact has been significant, fact checks co…
Exposure to Social Engagement Metrics Increases Vulnerability to Misinformation
Mihai Avram, Nicholas Micallef, Sameer Patil +1
News feeds in virtually all social media platforms include engagement metrics, such as the number of times each post is liked and shared. We find that exposure to these social enga…
That's Not Me! Designing Fictitious Profiles to Answer Security Questions
Nicholas Micallef, Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage
Although security questions are still widely adopted, they still have several limitations. Previous research found that using system-generated information to answer security questi…
Involving Users in the Design of a Serious Game for Security Questions Education
Nicholas Micallef, Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage
When using security questions most users still trade-off security for the convenience of memorability. This happens because most users find strong answers to security questions dif…
Changing users' security behaviour towards security questions: A game based learning approach
Nicholas Micallef, Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage
Fallback authentication is used to retrieve forgotten passwords. Security questions are one of the main techniques used to conduct fallback authentication. In this paper, we propos…
A Serious Game Design: Nudging Users' Memorability of Security Questions
Nicholas Micallef, Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage
Security questions are one of the techniques used to recover passwords. The main limitation of security questions is that users find strong answers difficult to remember. This lead…