Anu Aggarwal is at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) presenting work titled "Evidence of Cognitive Biases in Capture-the-Flag Cybersecurity Competitions." Exploiting cognitive biases may help us design more robust protections against cyber attacks!

#HICSS #CMU #PicoCTF

One of the best parts about #HICSS is that we're on island time and island prerogative. It even permeates the dress code. =)

Okay, y'all ... Let's get to work. Very eager to be part of three different #hicss presentations/publications, engaging media psychology in many different contexts - from social robots to love in video games. =)

Publications, soon to come. 😊 #HICSS

Y. E. Zhao & @bowmanspartan.bsky.social (2026), Simulated Intimacy, but Real Connection: Perceived Reciprocity and Romantic Closeness make Otome Fun to Play. #HICSS

@bowmanspartan.bsky.social, C. Cook, & Chingching Chang (2026), An Eye for an Eye and A Smile for a Smile: Examining Aggressive and Supportive Behavioral Alignment Among Taiwanese Adolescence Who Play Video Games. #HICSS

Nice! Our teams had three papers accepted at #HICSS in Maui for January 2026:

@amperjay.bsky.social , Harper, R., & @bowmanspartan.bsky.social (2026), Initial Validation of the Teleoperator-Avatar Robot Interaction Scale (TARX).

Y'all, #HICSS is keeping us BUSY this year. I wonder if this means we'll have a pretty big crew in Maui?

A'ight #HICSS, I got dis.

Doctoral Consortium – HICSS

For the third time in a row, the #DigitalGovernment track at #HICSS is going to have their own #doctoral #colloquium. If you are a PhD student doing research about any topic involving #information, #technology, and #government, apply by August 31! More information at hicss.hawaii.edu/doctoral-con...

Perceived Demands, not Progressive Embodiment, Drives Embodied Self-Presence in a VR Racing Video Game Embodied self-presence is a phenomenon in which people feel ownership and control over their on-screen avatars. At least one technological feature thought to increase embodied self-presence is the pro...

Ending 2024 with one final paper in Yoon Lee and I's latest at #HICSS: scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/3c9f0d... a study on the role that perceived demands plays in driving perceptions of self-presence in VR-based video games. Give a peek, and the data might surprised you. 😊

Social media platforms are fragile in that their "Laws/rules, policies, and norms are continuously shifting … often unmoored from the ‘Rule of Law’ and venturing into the ‘Rule of Men’ territory (ex. Musk, Zuckerberg). scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/5db684...
#HICSS57 #HICSS #platformgovernance

Social media platforms are fragile in the sense that they are unable to support stable operation of their “social state” in terms of governance, operation, protection, and human rights. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/5db684... #HICSS57 #HICSS #platformgovernance #contentmoderation #fragilestate

The paper is a purposeful provocation to recast & reframe social media platforms as "fragile social states." scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/5db684... #FragileStateIndex #HICSS57 #HICSS #platformgovernance #contentmoderation #fragilestate #humanrights

🥳🥳🥳🥳 "Social Media as Fragile State" by @SMLabTO researchers Caroline Haythornthwaite, @philipmai.com & @gruzd.ca has been nominated for best paper at #HICSS2024!
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#HICSS57 #HICSS #platformgovernance #contentmoderation #fragilestate #humanrights

Thomas Herrmann and @sabinepfeiffer seem to be accepted to #HICSS 2023 with a paper on Keeping the Organization in the Loop and AI in medical imaging. One more for the interdisciplinary work we thrive for in our DFG PP 2267 https://digitalisierung-der-arbeitswelten.de/home