Security Fictions
Difficulty Level:
Method Overview
Security Fictions is a role-playing game, designed for teams of software developers to identify various security threats in their software and how to better approach these issues
Framework of ethics used:
consequentialist
pragmatist
Method Intentions:
Getting Started
You will need:
Participants: 7
Steps (Merrill, N.):
- Introduce the game and its rules
- Proceed through the Impersonation Fiction scenario
- Proceed through the Stalking Fiction scenario
- Proceed through the Political Profiling Fiction scenario
- Discuss and reflect on the resolutions you came to
Further Reading
Citation
Merrill, N. (2020). Security fictions. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395451
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