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Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management

Dr. Douglas Twitchell joined Boise State University’s Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management in 2016. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems with a Linguistics minor from the University of Arizona’s Eller School of Management. Dr. Twitchell’s research interests range from effects of deception on task performance to security in WiFi. He earned multiple grants for cyber security defense research, and in 2013 won the Illinois State University Impact Award for teaching. While at Illinois State University Dr. Twitchell organized and lead the Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition from 2012-2015 in which high school students from around Central Illinois come to ISU to compete in a competition that requires them to defend a network of computers against attack. In 2014 he lead the school’s successful application to renew its status as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance and Cyber Defense.

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Dr. Douglas Twitchell joined Boise State University’s Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management in 2016. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems with a Linguistics minor from the University of Arizona’s Eller School of Management. Dr. Twitchell’s research interests range from effects of deception on task performance to security in WiFi. He earned multiple grants for cyber security defense research, and in 2013 won the Illinois State University Impact Award for teaching. While at Illinois State University Dr. Twitchell organized and lead the Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition from 2012-2015 in which high school students from around Central Illinois come to ISU to compete in a competition that requires them to defend a network of computers against attack. In 2014 he lead the school’s successful application to renew its status as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance and Cyber Defense.

Protection Motivation and Deterrence: Evidence from a Fortune 100 Company (David Sikolia, Douglas Twitchell and Glen Sagers) AIS Transactions on Replication Research

This paper contains a conceptual replication of Herath and Rao (2009), who tested the Integrated Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and General Deterrence Theory (GDT) model of security policy compliance under the umbrella of the Decomposed ...

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Does Accuracy Matter?: Methodological Considerations When Using Automated Speech-to-Text for Social Science Research (Steven J. Pentland, Christie M. Fuller, Lee A. Spitzley, et al.) International Journal of Social Research Methodology (2023)

The analysis of spoken language has been integral to a breadth of research in social science and beyond. However, for analyses to occur with efficiency, language must be in the form of computer-readable text. Historically, ...

Expressing Uncertainty in Information Systems Analytics Research: A Demonstration of Bayesian Analysis Applied to Binary Classification Problems (Douglas P. Twitchell and Christie M. Fuller) Information Processing & Management (2023)

The measures typically used to assess binary classification problems fail to incorporate the uncertainty inherent to many contexts into the results. We propose using a Bayesian model to express the uncertainty in binary classification problems. ...

Too Busy to Be Manipulated: How Multitasking with Technology Improves Deception Detection in Collaborative Teamwork (Nathan W. Twyman, Jeffrey G. Proudfoot, Ann-Frances Cameron, et al.) Journal of Management Information Systems (2020)

Deception is an unfortunate staple in group work. Guarding against team members’ deceptive tactics and alternative agendas is difficult and may seem even more difficult in technology-driven business environments that have made multitasking during teamwork ...

Advancing the Assessment of Automated Deception Detection Systems: Incorporating Base Rate and Cost into System Evaluation (Douglas P. Twitchell and Christie M. Fuller) Information Systems Journal (2019)

In the last two decades, there has been an increased interest in automated deception detection systems (ADDs) for use in screening, although little attention has been paid to the usefulness of these systems. ADDs use ...

Real-World Deception and the Impact of Severity (Christie M. Fuller, Douglas P. Twitchell, David P. Biros, et al.) Journal of Computer Information Systems (2015)

Previous research has shown that language varies between deceivers and truth tellers. These linguistic differences serve as the foundation to automated text-based deception detection methods. However, few studies have analyzed linguistic cues to deception in ...

Negotiation Outcome Classification Using Language Features (Douglas Twitchell, Matthew L Jensen, Douglas C. Derrick, et al.) Group Decision and Negotiation (2012)

In this paper we discuss the relationships among negotiations, integrative and distributive speech acts, and classification of negotiation outcome. Our findings present how using automated linguistic analysis can show the trajectory of negotiations towards convergence ...

SecurityCom: A Multi-Player Game for Researching and Teaching Information Security Teams (Douglas P. Twitchell) Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (2007)

A major portion of government and business organizations’ attempts to counteract information security threats is teams of security personnel. These teams often consist of personnel of diverse backgrounds in specific specialties such as network administration, ...

Protection Motivation and Deterrence: Evidence from a Fortune 100 Company (David Sikolia, Douglas Twitchell and Glen Sagers) AIS Transactions on Replication Research

This paper contains a conceptual replication of Herath and Rao (2009), who tested the Integrated Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and General Deterrence Theory (GDT) model of security policy compliance under the umbrella of the Decomposed ...

CollabSec: A Multi-Player Game for Researching and Teaching Information System Risk Assessment (Douglas Twitchell, Christie M. Fuller, David Biros, et al.) Workshop on Information Security and Privicy (WISP) 2012 Proceedings (2012)

This paper introduces CollabSec, a new tool for studying risk assessment in a collaborative online environment. Players decide how to allocate limited resources to apply controls to various assets to mitigate threats and protect a ...

Social Engineering and Its Countermeasures (Douglas P. Twitchell) Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Liabilities in Information Security (2009)

This chapter introduces and defines social engineering, a recognized threat to the security of information systems. It also introduces a taxonomy for classifying social engineering attacks along four dimensions: who or what the targets are, ...

Employees’ Adherence to Information Security Policies: A Partial Replication (David Sikolia, David Sikolia, Douglas Twitchell, et al.) AMCIS 2016 Proceedings (2016)

This paper conducts a partial replication of (Siponen et al. 2014) which developed a multi-theory based model that explained employees’ adherence to security policies. Their paper combined elements from Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), the Theory ...

A Response to the AIS Bright ICT Initiative (Glen Sagers and Douglas P. Twitchell) AMCIS 2016: Surfing the IT Innovation Wave - 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2016 (2016)

In 2015, the President of the Associate for Information Systems introduced the Bright ICT Initiative (Lee 2015), which provides a framework for improving Internet security based on four principles: origin responsibility, deliverer responsibility, rule-based digital ...

Employees’ Adherence to Information Security Policies: A Partial Replication (David Sikolia, Douglas Twitchell and Glen Sagers) Twenty-second Conference on Information Systems, San Diego, 2016 (2016)

This paper conducts a partial replication of (Siponen et al. 2014) which developed a multi-theory based model that explained employees’ adherence to security policies. Their paper combined elements from Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), the Theory ...

Where's the Security in WiFi? An Argument for Industry Awareness (Glen Sagers, Bryan Hosack, R. J. Rowley, et al.) Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: HICSS 2015 (2015)

As more and more wirelessly connected networks come online, security becomes a prominent concern. WiFi insecurity can result in detrimental effects to both individuals and organizations. To establish a greater awareness of the problems associated ...

CollabSec: A Multi-Player Game for Researching and Teaching Information System Risk Assessment (Douglas Twitchell, Christie M. Fuller, David Biros, et al.) WISP 2012 Proceedings (2012)

This paper introduces CollabSec, a new tool for studying risk assessment in a collaborative online environment. Players decide how to allocate limited resources to apply controls to various assets to mitigate threats and protect a ...

A Model for the Impact of Task Complexity on Deception in a Group Decision Making Task (Douglas Twitchell, Christie Fuller, David Brios, et al.) AMCIS 2009 Proceedings (2009)

This paper reports the results of a pilot study of a group decision making task. A research model and hypotheses are presented related to the larger main study which has yet to be conducted. The ...

An Analysis of Text-Based Deception Detection Tools (Christie Fuller, David Biros, Douglas Twitchell, et al.) AMCIS 2006 Proceedings (2006)

Data Quality Relevance in Linguistic Analysis: The Impact of Transcription Errors on Multiple Methods of Linguistic Analysis (Steven Pentland, Lee Spitzley, Christie Fuller, et al.) AMCIS 2019 Proceedings

There is an enormous amount of recorded speech generated daily, and quickly transcribing and analyzing the text of this speech could have tremendous value to organizations and researchers. However, the speech transcription process has historically ...

Interplay of Desktop and Mobile Apps with Web Services in an Introductory Programming Course (Amit Shesh and Douglas Twitchell) AMCIS 2013 Proceedings

This paper describes a case study of a second-semester introductory programming course for information systems (IS) students that combined desktop and mobile application development and consumption of existing web services. Our aim was to provide ...

Interplay of Desktop and Mobile Apps with Web Services in an Introductory Programming Course (Amit Shesh and Douglas Twitchell) Americas Conference on Information Systems (2013)

CollabSec: A Multi-Player Game for Researching and Teaching Information System Risk Assessment (Douglas Twitchell, Christie M. Fuller, David Biros, et al.) WISP 2012 Proceedings (2012)

This paper introduces CollabSec, a new tool for studying risk assessment in a collaborative online environment. Players decide how to allocate limited resources to apply controls to various assets to mitigate threats and protect a ...

Human Intelligence Workgroup Report (David Biros, Douglas P. Twitchell, Kent Marett, et al.) (2008)

Credibility Assessment Research Summit sponsored by the U.S. Defense Agency for Credibility Assessment.