James Nicholson

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• 2025

  From Human Insight to Machine Intelligence: Assessing GenAI’s Role in Nigerian Journalism

  Tijani, O. & Nicholson, J., 8 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press). 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Human and digital ecosystems in the modern household

  Briggs, P., Nicholson, J. & Lukins, R., 6 Jan 2025, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 15, p. 1-12 12 p., 1426804.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Understanding How Privacy and Data Protection Perceptions Shape Nigerian Journalists’ Use of AI Tools

  Tijani, O., Mahoney, J., Vijaykumar, S. & Nicholson, J., 9 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press). 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Using Anonymous Discussion Platforms to Support Open Conversations about Cybersecurity in Organisations

  Jenkins, E., Abdulgalimov, D., Briggs, P., Olivier, P. & Nicholson, J., 16 Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) CHI 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, USA: ACM, 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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• 2024

  Post-mortem information management: exploring contextual factors in appropriate personal data access after death

  Holt, J., Smeddinck, J. D., Nicholson, J., Vlachokyriakos, V. & Durrant, A. C., 21 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Human-Computer Interaction. p. 1-36 36 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  5 Citations (Scopus)

  118 Downloads (Pure)

• Privacy-Aware Decision Making: The Effect of Privacy Nudges on Privacy Awareness and the Monetary Assessment of Personal Information

  Schmitt, V., Nicholson, J. & Möller, S., 30 Mar 2024, In: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. 15, 3, p. 17-26 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Understanding Security Practitioners’ Experiences of Investigating Compromised Email Accounts

  Chitare, N., Coventry, L. & Nicholson, J., 1 Jul 2024, Proceedings of BCS HCI 2024. London: BCS Learning and Development Ltd., p. 136-145 10 p. (Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)).

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• Using Breach and Attack Demonstrations to Explain Spear Phishing Attacks to Young Adults

  Briddick, C., Briggs, P. & Nicholson, J., 11 Jun 2024, Information Security Education - Challenges in the Digital Age (WISE 2024). Drevin, L., Leung, W. S. & von Solms, S. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 65-80 16 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 707).

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• 2023

  Better the Devil You Know: Using Lost-Smartphone Scenarios to Explore user Perceptions of Unauthorised Access

  Dixon, M., Sillence, E., Nicholson, J. & Coventry, L., 16 Oct 2023, EuroUSEC '23: Proceedings of the 2022 European Symposium on Usable Security. New York, US: ACM, p. 86–96 17 p.

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• Designing for the Embedding of Employee Voice

  Abdulgalimov, D., Kirkham, R., Lindsay, S., Vlachokyriakos, V., Nicholson, J., Dao, E., Kos, D., Jitnah, D., Briggs, P. & Olivier, P., 14 Apr 2023, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 7, CSCW1, p. 1-31 31 p., 45.

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  • Employee Voice 100%
  • Workplace 42%
  • Process 28%
  • Design 28%
  • Identity 14%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  47 Downloads (Pure)

• Friendly Folk Advice: Exploring Cybersecurity Information Sharing in Nigeria

  Nicholson, J., Dele-Ajayi, O., Fasae, K. & Alese, B. K., 25 May 2023, (Accepted/In press). 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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• Is Your Surveillance Camera App Watching You? A Privacy Analysis

  Schmitt, V., Nicholson, J. & Möller, S., 11 Sept 2023, Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of the 2023 Computing Conference, Volume 1. Arai, K. (ed.). 1st ed. Springer, Cham: Springer, p. 1375-1393 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 739).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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  • Application 100%
  • User 40%
  • Personal Information 40%
  • Smartphones 40%
  • Data Protection Directive 40%
  32 Downloads (Pure)

• Life after lockdown: The experiences of older adults in a contactless digital world

  Morrison, B., Nicholson, J., Wood, B. & Briggs, P., 13 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 14 p., 1100521.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Older Adult 100%
  • Older Adults 50%
  • Life 33%
  • Thematic Analysis 33%
  • Technology 16%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

  27 Downloads (Pure)

• OurStrategy: Employee Voice In Transnational Strategy Development

  Abdulgalimov, D., Kirkham, R., Nicholson, J., Bartindale, T. & Olivier, P., 19 Apr 2023, CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: April 23 - 28, 2023 Hamburg, Germany. Schmidt, A., Väänänen, K., Goyal, T., Kristensson, P. O., Peters, A., Mueller, S., Williamson, J. R. & Wilson, M. L. (eds.). New York, USA: ACM, p. 1-17 17 p. 871

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  2 Citations (Scopus)

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• Recognising Diversity in Older Adults’ Cybersecurity Needs

  Morrison, B., Nicholson, J., Coventry, L. & Briggs, P., 6 Sept 2023, ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT ’23), September 06–08, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.. New York, US: ACM, p. 437-445 9 p.

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  8 Citations (Scopus)

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• The digital harms of smart home devices: A systematic literature review

  Buil-Gil, D., Kemp, S., Kuenzel, S., Coventry, L., Zakhary, S., Tilley, D. & Nicholson, J., 1 Aug 2023, In: Computers in Human Behavior. 145, 15 p., 107770.

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  32 Citations (Scopus)

  203 Downloads (Pure)

• “It may take ages”: Understanding Human-Centred Lateral Phishing Attack Detection in Organisations

  Chitare, N., Coventry, L. & Nicholson, J., 15 Aug 2023, (Accepted/In press) p. 1-25. 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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  2 Citations (Scopus)

  47 Downloads (Pure)

• “It’s the one thing that makes my life tick”: Security Perspectives of the Smartphone Era

  Dixon, M., Sillence, E., Nicholson, J. & Coventry, L., 18 Aug 2023, (Accepted/In press). 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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• 2022

  Holding Your Hand on the Danger Button: Observing User Phish Detection Strategies Across Mobile and Desktop

  Dixon, M., Nicholson, J., Branley-Bell, D., Briggs, P. & Coventry, L., 19 Sept 2022, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6, MHCI, 22 p., 195.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

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  • Detection 100%
  • Phish 100%
  • User 75%
  • Electronic Mail 75%
  • Phishing 50%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  72 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Exploring the Acceptability of Graphical Passwords for People with Dyslexia

  Evtimova, P. & Nicholson, J., 26 Aug 2021, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021: 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, August 30 – September 3, 2021, Proceedings, Part I. Ardito, C., Lanzilotti, R., Malizia, A., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Desolda, G. & Inkpen, K. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Vol. 12932. p. 213-222 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); vol. 12932).

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  • Alphanumeric Password 100%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  179 Downloads (Pure)

• From Personal Data to Digital Legacy: Exploring Conflicts in the Sharing, Security and Privacy of Post-mortem Data

  Holt, J., Nicholson, J. & Smeddinck, J., 19 Apr 2021, WWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021. Leskovec, J., Grobelnik, M., Najork, M., Tang, J. & Zia, L. (eds.). New York: ACM, p. 2745-2756 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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  • Digital Commons 100%
  • Privacy Practice 100%
  • Password Manager 100%
  19 Citations (Scopus)

  131 Downloads (Pure)

• Training and Embedding Cybersecurity Guardians in Older Communities

  Nicholson, J., Morrison, B., Dixon, M., Holt, J., Coventry, L. & McGlasson, J., 6 May 2021, CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Kitamura, Y., Quigley, A., Isbister, K., Igarashi, T., Bjørn, P. & Drucker, S. (eds.). New York: ACM, p. 1-15 15 p. 86

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  • Cybersecurity 100%
  • Cyberattack 75%
  • Simulation Mode 50%
  • Contexts 25%
  • Roles 25%
  30 Citations (Scopus)

  386 Downloads (Pure)

• Understanding Young People’s Experiences of Cybersecurity

  Nicholson, J., Terry, J., Beckett, H. & Kumar, P., 11 Oct 2021, EuroUSEC '21: European Symposium on Usable Security 2021. New York, US: ACM, p. 200-210 11 p.

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  • Cybersecurity 100%
  • Young People 66%
  • Subject 33%
  • Knowledge 33%
  • Understanding 16%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  277 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  CyberGuardians: Improving Community Cyber Resilience Through Embedded Peer-to-Peer Support

  Nicholson, J. & McGlasson, J., 6 Jul 2020, DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York, NY: ACM, p. 117–121 5 p.

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  • Cyber Resilience 100%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  121 Downloads (Pure)

• Investigating Teenagers’ Ability to Detect Phishing Messages

  Nicholson, J., Javed, Y., Dixon, M., Coventry, L., Dele-Ajayi, O. & Anderson, P., Sept 2020, EuroUSEC 2020: The 5th European Workshop on Usable Security. Piscataway: IEEE, p. 140-149 10 p.

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  • Teenager 100%
  • Phishing 80%
  • Messages 80%
  • Service 40%
  • Familiarity 40%
  27 Citations (Scopus)

  109 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Engaging Users with Educational Games: The Case of Phishing

  Dixon, M., Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage, N. & Nicholson, J., 2 May 2019, Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19): May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 6 p. LBW0265

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  • Educational Content 100%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

  150 Downloads (Pure)

• “If It’s Important It Will Be A Headline”: Cybersecurity Information Seeking in Older Adults

  Nicholson, J., Coventry, L. & Briggs, P., 2 May 2019, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, p. 1-11 11 p. 349

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  • Cybersecurity 100%
  • User 25%
  • Domains 25%
  • Information Behavior 25%
  • Internet 12%
  65 Citations (Scopus)

  280 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Introducing the Cybersurvival Task: Assessing and Addressing Staff Beliefs about Effective Cyber Protection

  Nicholson, J., Coventry, L. & Briggs, P., 12 Aug 2018, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2018: Baltimore, MD, USA August 12–14, 2018. Berkeley: USENIX Association, p. 443-457 15 p.

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  • Organizational Policy 100%
  • Security Expert 100%
  53 Downloads (Pure)

• Simple Nudges for Better Password Creation

  Nicholson, J., Vlachokyriakos, V., Coventry, L., Briggs, P. & Olivier, P., 6 Jul 2018.

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  • Password Policy 100%
  • Password Length 100%
  • Security Breach 100%
  • Mechanical Turk 100%
  • Guessing Attack 100%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  82 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Activity Recognition for Quality Assessment of Batting Shots in Cricket using a Hierarchical Representation

  Khan, A., Nicholson, J. & Ploetz, T., Sept 2017, In: ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). 1, 3, 62.

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  • Individual Activity 100%
  103 Downloads (Pure)

• Can We Fight Social Engineering Attacks By Social Means? Assessing Social Salience as a Means to Improve Phish Detection

  Nicholson, J., Coventry, L. & Briggs, P., 12 Jul 2017, Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (0SOUPS 2017): Santa Clara, CA, USA, July 12–14, 2017. USENIX Association, p. 285-298 14 p.

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  • User 100%
  • Detection 100%
  • Phishing 100%
  • Electronic Mail 100%
  • Phish 100%
  54 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Everyday surveillance

  Briggs, P., Churchill, E., Levine, M., Nicholson, J., Pritchard, G. W. & Olivier, P., 7 May 2016, CHI EA 2016: #chi4good - Extended Abstracts, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, p. 3566-3573 8 p.

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  • Surveillance 100%
  • Crime 11%
  • National Cultures 11%
  • Research 11%
  • Practice 11%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  68 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Captchat: A messaging tool to frustrate ubiquitous surveillance

  Dunphy, P., Schöning, J., Nicholson, J. & Olivier, P., 18 Apr 2015.

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  • Private Message 100%
  • Online Privacy 100%
  • Optical Character Recognition 100%
  • Privacy Control 100%
  • CAPTCHA 100%

• Crowdsourcing and CCTV: the effect of interface, financial bonus and video type

  Dunphy, P., Nicholson, J., Vlachokyriakos, V., Briggs, P. & Olivier, P., Feb 2015, Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University. 19 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  • Reinforcement Learning 100%
  • Expected Runtime 100%
  • Computational Effort 100%
  • Interactive User 100%

• Social media as a resource for understanding security experiences: A qualitative analysis of #password tweets

  Dunphy, P., Vlachokyriakos, V., Thieme, A., Nicholson, J., McCarthy, J. & Olivier, P., 22 Jul 2015, SOUPS 2015 - Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. Berkeley, US: USENIX Association, p. 141-150 10 p.

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  • Password 100%
  • Contexts 12%
  • Research Worker 12%
  • Relationships 12%
  • Social Media 12%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  28 Downloads (Pure)

• Using IMUs to identify supervisors on touch devices

  Kharrufa, A., Nicholson, J., Dunphy, P., Hodges, S., Briggs, P. & Olivier, P., 30 Aug 2015, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015. Abascal, J., Barbosa, S., Fetter, M., Gross, T., Palanque, P. & Winckler, M. (eds.). London: Springer, Vol. 9297. p. 565-583 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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  • Response Protocol 100%
  • Measurement Unit 100%
  • Evaluation Study 100%
  • Input Device 100%
  • Correlating Data 100%
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2014

  Occupancy monitoring using environmental & context sensors and a hierarchical analysis framework

  Khan, A., Nicholson, J., Mellor, S., Jackson, D., Ladha, K., Ladha, C., Hand, J., Clarke, J., Olivier, P. & Ploetz, T., 3 Nov 2014, BuildSys '14: Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings. Srivastava, M. (ed.). 2014 ed. ACM, p. 90-99 10 p.

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  • User 100%
  • Real World 100%
  • Accuracy 100%
  • Wireless Sensor Network 100%
  • Analysis Framework 100%
  38 Downloads (Pure)

• Panopticon as an eLearning support search tool

  Nicholson, J., Huber, M., Jackson, D. & Olivier, P., 26 Apr 2014, CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, p. 1221-1224 4 p.

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  • Video Standard 100%
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Age-Related Performance Issues for PIN and Face-Based Authentication Systems

  Nicholson, J., Coventry, L. & Briggs, P., 2013.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  44 Citations (Scopus)

• Faces and Pictures: Understanding age differences in two types of graphical authentications

  Nicholson, J., Coventry, L. & Briggs, P., 2013, In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 71, 10, p. 958-966

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  • Authentication System 100%
  • Additional Code 100%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

• Location tracking: views from the older adult population

  Thomas, L., Little, L., Briggs, P., McInnes, L., Jones, E. & Nicholson, J., Jun 2013, In: Age and Ageing. 42, 6, p. 758-763

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  • Location Based Service 100%
  • Older Adults 85%
  • Intention 85%
  • Older Adult 85%
  • Technology 42%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

  29 Downloads (Pure)

• Panopticon: A parallel video overview system

  Jackson, D., Nicholson, J., Stoeckigt, G., Wrobel, R., Thieme, A. & Olivier, P., 8 Oct 2013, UIST'13: Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 2013 ed. ACM

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  • Thumbnails 100%
  • Entire Sequence 100%
  28 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  A Security Assessment of Tiles: A New Portfolio-Based Graphical Authentication System

  Nicholson, J., Dunphy, P., Coventry, L., Briggs, P. & Olivier, P., May 2012.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Authentication Credential 100%
  • Security Assessment 100%
  • Provide Evidence 100%
• 2010

  Multi-touch authentication on tabletops

  Kim, D. H., Dunphy, P., Briggs, P., Hook, J., Nicholson, J. & Olivier, P., 2010.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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  • Touch Interaction 100%
  • Authentication Technique 100%
  • User Authentication 100%
  95 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  Securing passfaces for description

  Dunphy, P., Nicholson, J. & Olivier, P., 2008, SOUPS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. p. 24-34 11 p. (SOUPS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security).

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  • Password 100%
  • Common Practice 50%
  • Alphanumeric Password 50%
  • Abilities 50%
  • Disclosure 50%
  33 Citations (Scopus)