Security is generally a state or feeling of being saved and protected, an assurance that something of value will not be taken. This paper employs two of the emerging artificial intelligence technologies: Facial Recognition and Artificial Neural Networks for developing a secure keyless door where authentication of authorized faces are the only guarantee for entry. This mechanically built door, w...

“Security” parallels “health” in that it is commonly defined as the absence of its negation, “illness”. In fact, the concept of security challenges any attempt to be objectively apprehended, except as an absence of insecurity. Illness, however, can be identified wherever and whenever by sets of visible symptoms that are indicators of regularities, usually bringing forth the same effects. This i...

Games have a long tradition in teaching IT security: Ranging from international capture-the-flag competitions played by multiple teams to educational simulation games where individual students can get a feeling for the effects of security decisions. All these games have in common, that the game’s main goal is keeping up the security. In this paper, we propose another kind of educational securit...

Abstract For means of communication, persuasion is a natural and critical part conveying message. Data visualizations, being communication themselves, are used as rhetorical instruments, but how they persuade has yet to be fully understood. Based on George Campbell’s theory, this paper presents the results an empirical study testing effectiveness appeals emotion through proximity techniques – c...

The contribution of the feelings-as-information hypothesis to our understanding of the role of affect in judgment and decision making is discussed. Basic principles and regularities in how affective feelings guide judgments and decisions are then identified. Based on these principles and regularities, it is argued that the role of feelings in judgment and decision making may be more adaptive th...

The authors hypothesize that the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), despite their apparent nonrationality, have what might be termed an epistemic origin--that is, they stem from an inability to generate the normal "feeling of knowing" that would otherwise signal task completion and terminate the expression of a security motivational system. The authors compare their satiety-signal...