Nice Ninth Week
This week was spent preparing for DashCon. The lab is sending us there to give a survey on online risk perception. The survey is really long (over an hour), but we're giving the participants a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.
We worked on this survey by testing some of the questions. We added ethics questions to see how people at DashCon feel about hacking, defacing a website, and accessing information without permission, in regards to different entities like companies and non-profit organizations.
I also spent a lot of time working on the passwords website. We had a variety of issues with communication between parts of code. We needed to send data from the password creation section, in particular the chosen reminder picture for certain experiment designs. We finally managed to figure out how to get that data across and I programmed the website to display the correct image. Also, we had to change some code so that when people didn't pick a reminder picture, the website didn't break.
The qualitative coding group also worked on the categorizing the second order phishing codes. However, after finishing all 390 responses, I feel that we may need to redo the codes. I first-order coded last than 100 of the original responses and feel that that was not enough to truly describe what we ran into later on.
On Wednesday, we broke up into small groups and gave our three-minute summaries of our project. I managed to speak just less than 3 minutes. It was very interesting to hear about other people's projects and results.
Because DashCon is in Illinois, we had to leave early on Thursday to be on time for early vendor's registration. We were marked as a vendor because we bought a table in vendor's hall. It was a central location to give out new surveys and receive completed surveys. I'll write a separate post about what occurred at DashCon 2014.
We worked on this survey by testing some of the questions. We added ethics questions to see how people at DashCon feel about hacking, defacing a website, and accessing information without permission, in regards to different entities like companies and non-profit organizations.
I also spent a lot of time working on the passwords website. We had a variety of issues with communication between parts of code. We needed to send data from the password creation section, in particular the chosen reminder picture for certain experiment designs. We finally managed to figure out how to get that data across and I programmed the website to display the correct image. Also, we had to change some code so that when people didn't pick a reminder picture, the website didn't break.
The qualitative coding group also worked on the categorizing the second order phishing codes. However, after finishing all 390 responses, I feel that we may need to redo the codes. I first-order coded last than 100 of the original responses and feel that that was not enough to truly describe what we ran into later on.
On Wednesday, we broke up into small groups and gave our three-minute summaries of our project. I managed to speak just less than 3 minutes. It was very interesting to hear about other people's projects and results.
Because DashCon is in Illinois, we had to leave early on Thursday to be on time for early vendor's registration. We were marked as a vendor because we bought a table in vendor's hall. It was a central location to give out new surveys and receive completed surveys. I'll write a separate post about what occurred at DashCon 2014.