Lessons Learned from Recruiting Participants with Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies

Mohammad Tahaei; Kami E Vaniea

Lessons Learned from Recruiting Participants with Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies

Mohammad Tahaei, Kami E Vaniea

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Abstract

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
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 17 May 2022
Event	1st International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering - Virtual Event Duration: 17 May 2022 → 17 May 2022 Conference number: 1 https://ropes-workshops.github.io/ropes22/

Conference

Conference	1st International Workshop on Recruiting Participants for Empirical Software Engineering
Abbreviated title	RoPES’22
Period	17/05/22 → 17/05/22
Internet address	https://ropes-workshops.github.io/ropes22/

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

developers
crowdsourcing
recruitment
usable privacy and security
emperical software engineering

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Lessons Learned from Recruiting Participants with Programming Skills for Empirical Privacy and Security Studies

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