I am generally interested in the ways that different people interact with their technological and educational environment. Specifically, I investigate the role of users' individual differences, especially spatial ability differences, in performance with computer interfaces. I have also studied the composition and measurement of language aptitude and its role in performance.
Most recently, my work has focused on measuring aptitude for cybersecurity, using a general framework to characterize cybersecurity jobs that require different cognitive and personality attributes. Cybersecurity isn't a single job or a single kind of job, so no one test is sufficient.
I am currently splitting my time between being an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Study of Language and being a Lecturer in the College of Information Studies focusing on developing cybersecurity curricula. I am a graduate of the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University of Maryland in College Park.
National Cybersecurity Curriculum Program grant: "Human-centered cybersecurity modules" (September 2017 - September 2018)
Campbell, S.G., O'Rourke, P., & Bunting, M.F. (2015). Identifying dimensions of cyber aptitude: The design of the Cyber Aptitude and Talent Assessment. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings, 721-725. doi:10.1177/1541931215591170
Linck, J.A., Hughes, M.M., Campbell, S.G., Silbert, N.H., Tare, M., Jackson, S.R., Smith, B.K., Bunting, M.F., & Doughty, C.J. (2013). Hi-LAB: A new measure of aptitude for high-level language proficiency. Language Learning 63(3), 530-566. doi:10.1111/lang.12011
Campbell, S.G., and Norman, K.L. (2010). Cognitive abilities and the measurement of World Wide Web usability. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings 54, 1092-1096. doi:10.1177/154193121005401409
Contact: susanc at umd dot edu
Last Modified: 18 January 2018
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