At the University of Calgary
This project provides a comprehensive and current understanding of the role, influence and impact of human factors on the cybersecurity of democratic elections in Canada. Cyber threats include threats to election infrastructure, voters, and parties; the creation of misinformation, disinformation, and deepfakes, and their spread through social media platforms.
Research is rooted in the rule of law, and based upon robust, evidence-based, technologically-informed, transdisciplinary, and human-centered methods. The project aims to utilize its knowledge of human factors to improve human responses to cyber threats and to develop a technological concept or application to help protect against attacks on human epistemic cognition, democratic deliberation and voting decisions by empowering and incentivizing individual electors to access and properly evaluate information relevant to elections.
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