Educations
PhD, Information, University of Michigan 2009
MS, Computer Science, University of Michigan 2006
BS, Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests
Research fields – Human Centered Cybersecurity, Human-Computer Interaction, Cyber Policy, Social Computing
Methods and methodologies – I use a variety of methods (including mixed methods), but do a lot of qualitative interview methods, surveys, log analysis, and real world experiments
Theories – Many, but most recently Naturalistic Decision Making
Areas of Interest – HCI, Economics, Psychology, Anthropology
Publications
Rick Wash, Norbert Nthala, and Emilee Rader. “Knowledge and Capabilities that Non-Expert Users Bring to Phishing Detection” Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Virtual. July 2021.
Rick Wash and Emilee Rader. “Prioritizing Security Over Usability: Strategies for How People Choose Passwords” Journal of CyberSecurity. Vol. 7 June 2021.
Rick Wash. “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails” Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). Vol. 4 November 2020.
Rick Wash and Molly Cooper. “Who Provides Phishing Training? Facts, Stories, and People Like Me” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). Montreal, Canada. April 2018.
Rick Wash. “Folk Models of Home Computer Security” Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS). 2010.