3GSE '14 - SecurityEmpire: Development and Evaluation of a Digital Game to Promote Cybersecurity

SecurityEmpire: Development and Evaluation of a Digital Game to Promote Cybersecurity Education

Marc Olano, Alan Sherman, Linda Oliva, Ryan Cox, Deborah Firestone, Oliver Kubik, Milind Patil, John Seymour, Isaac Sohn, and Donna Thomas, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

SecurityEmpire is a new multiplayer computer game to teach cybersecurity concepts to high school students. We describe the design and implementation of SecurityEmpire, explain how it teaches security concepts, share preliminary evaluative data from students and teachers, and describe our experiences with …

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