Lessons Learned From Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies

Mohammad Tahaei; Kami Vaniea

Lessons Learned From Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami Vaniea

Department of Computer Science

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In the past decade the usable privacy and security research community has extended its research to expert users such as software developers who have been shown to face challenges when working with privacy and security technologies. However, it is often challenging to run empirical studies with developers because they can be hard to recruit for interviews or surveys. Researchers have successfully used social media, crowdsourcing platforms, and computer science students for recruiting, but recruitment is still a significant pain point in many studies. This short paper reflects on our experience recruiting developers, particularly for empirical privacy and security research, for multiple studies from 2019 to 2022.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering, co-located with the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (RoPES - ICSE 2022)
Publisher	ROPES
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 29 May 2022
Event	RoPES - ICSE 2022 - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 21 May 2022 → 29 May 2022

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Conference	RoPES - ICSE 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	21/05/22 → 29/05/22

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Tahaei, M & Vaniea, K 2022, Lessons Learned From Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies. in International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering, co-located with the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (RoPES - ICSE 2022). ROPES, RoPES - ICSE 2022, Pittsburgh, United States, 21/05/22.

Lessons Learned From Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies. / Tahaei, Mohammad; Vaniea, Kami.
International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering, co-located with the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (RoPES - ICSE 2022). ROPES, 2022.

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