U.S. flag   An unofficial archive of your favorite United States government website
Dot gov

Official websites do not use .rip
We are an unofficial archive, replace .rip by .gov in the URL to access the official website. Access our document index here.

Https

We are building a provable archive!
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// don't prove our archive is authentic, only that you securely accessed it. Note that we are working to fix that :)

Projects Human-Centered Cybersecurity Research Areas

Human-Centered Cybersecurity

Youth Security & Privacy

Many security research efforts have focused on adults' perceptions and practices, leaving gaps in our understanding of youth perceptions and practices.

To help fill this gap, our team explores the online security and privacy perceptions and practices of youth and influencing social factors from three perspectives: youth themselves, parents/guardians, and teachers/educators. Research insights are informing NIST's contributions to the interagency Task Force on Kids Online Health & Safety.

 

Publications

Papers

Youth understandings of online privacy and security: A dyadic study of children and their parents paper icon - Olivia Williams, Yee-Yin Choong, & Kerrianne Buchanan. Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS) (2023).

'They're not risky' vs 'It can ruin your whole life': How youth/parent dyads differ in their understandings of online risk paper icon - Olivia Williams, Kerrianne Buchanan, & Yee-Yin Choong. HCI International (2023).

Challenges to Building Youth's Online Safety Knowledge from a Family Perspective: Results from a Youth/Parent Dyad Study paper icon - Olivia Murphy, Yee-Yin Choong, & Kerrianne Buchanan. Workshop on Kids' Online Privacy and Safety (2022).

Investigating Youths' Learning of Online Safety and Privacy from Others: A Discussion of Study Design and Statistical Analysis Considerations paper icon - Kerrianne Buchanan, Yee-Yin Choong, and Olivia Murphy. Workshop on Kids' Online Privacy and Safety (2022).

Videos

How can parents encourage their children to use online technology safely and privately?  video icon (2023)

Blogs

NIST Researchers Explore Best Practices for Talking to Kids About Online Privacy (2023)

 

Papers

Parents, passwords, and parenting: How parents think about passwords and are involved in their children's password practices paper icon - Yee-Ying Choong, Kerrianne Buchanan, Olivia Williams. HCI International (2023).

"Passwords Keep Me Safe" – Understanding What Children Think about Passwords report icon - Mary Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong, & Olivia Murphy. USENIX Security Symposium  (2021)

“Passwords protect my stuff”— A Study of Children’s Password Practices paper icon - Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Karen Renaud, & Suzanne Prior. Journal of Cybersecurity (December 2019)

Case Study – Exploring Children’s Password Knowledge and Practices paper icon - Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Karen Renaud, & Suzanne Prior. Proceedings of the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC) at the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium (2019)

Presentations

Parenting Digital Natives in a Tech World: Research Findings of Children's and Parents' Password Knowledge & Practices presentation icon - Yee-Yin Choong (October 25, 2021)

Blogs

Using Strong Passwords and a Password Manager - Meghan Anderson and Yee-Yin Choong (2023)

NIST Study on Kids’ Passwords Shows Gap Between Knowledge of Password Best Practices and Behavior (2021)

Videos

How good are kids at making passwords?  video icon (2021)

 

Contacts

NIST Human-Centered Cybersecurity
human-cybersec@nist.gov

Julie Haney
julie.haney@nist.gov

Created November 17, 2016, Updated November 16, 2023