August 2024: I won’t allow my child to have a smartphone: Why Smart parents make not so smart children. B-Sides, Las Vegas. 

August 2023: Devising and Detecting Phishing: Large Language Models (GPT3, GPT4) vs. Smaller Human Models (V-Triad, Generic Emails). Fredrik Heiding, Arun Vishwanath, and Bruce Schneier at Blackhat, Las Vegas.

July 2019: Instilling cyber hygiene among users and creating a culture of cyber safety. Invited pre-conference workshop conducted at the 2019 Asian Conference for Criminal and Operations Psychology organized by the Home Team Psychological Services at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore.

June 2019: Human Cyber Vulnerability: How to diagnose, detect, defend the weakest links in enterprise security. 12th annual meeting on Security and Human Behavior (SHB) organized by Bruce Schneier, Ross Anderson, Alessandro Acquisti at Harvard University.

Vishwanath, A. (2018). Incorporating Human Cyber Vulnerability Assessment into Your Threat Assessment Model. Black Hat webinar sponsored by PhishMe’s Co-Fence, March 2018.

Vishwanath, A. (2017). Why Most Cyber Security Training Fails and What We Can Do About It. Research presented at Black Hat, Las Vegas, August 2017.

Vishwanath, A., Kwak, Y., & Harrison, B. (2017). The Critical Role Of Cyber Risk Beliefs (CRB) In Determining Why People Fall Victim To Spear Phishing. Paper accepted at International Communication Association’s annual conference in San Diego, California, June 2017.

Vishwanath, A. (2017). Why Do People Get Phished on Social Media? Paper accepted for International Communication Association’s annual conference in San Diego, California, June 2017.

Vishwanath, A. (2016). Blunting The Phisher’s Spear: A Risk-Based Approach For Defining User Training And Awarding Administrative Privileges. Paper presented at Black Hat, Las Vegas, August 2016.

Harrison, B., Vishwanath, A., & Ng., Y.J. (2016). Does Online Social Capital Aid or Abet User Susceptibility to Social Media Phishing? Paper accepted for International Communication Association’s annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, June 2016.

Vishwanath, A., Xu, W., Ngoh, Z., Ng., Y.J., & Harrison, B. (2016). How the Depth and Breadth of Online Networks Define the Use of Facebook’s Privacy Settings. Paper accepted for International Communication Association’s annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, June 2016.

Vishwanath, A. (2016). The Cognitive View on the Adoption of Innovations: A Focus on Technology Schemas. Paper accepted for International Communication Association’s annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, June 2016.

Ng, Y.J., Xu, W., & Vishwanath, A. (2016). Mediated Grief on Social Media: The Case of Mourning Lee Kuan Yew’s Passing in Singapore. Paper accepted for International Communication Association’s annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, June 2016.

Ng, Y.J., Yang, Z.J., & Vishwanath, A. (2016). To Fear or Not to Fear? Understanding the Role of Social Media in Risk Amplification. Paper accepted for International Communication Association’s annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, June 2016.

Ngoh, Z., Xu, W., & Vishwanath, A. (2015). Predicting privacy protection behavior on social networking sites. Paper presented at International Communication Association’s annual conference, San Juan, PR, May 2015.

Xu, W., Ngoh, Z., & Vishwanath, A. (2015). Enabling protection motivation in heuristic-systematic defense against email phishing. Top paper award. Paper presented at International Communication Association’s annual conference, San Juan, PR, May 2015. Paper selected as a top student paper in Communication and Technology Division. 

Vishwanath, A. (2015). Are habits cognitive processes? Examining the distinct antecedents of habits and outs influence on the outcomes of a phishing attack. Paper presented at International Communication Association’s annual conference, San Juan, PR, May 2015.

Vishwanath, A., Yu Jie Ng., Harrison, B. (2015). Suspicion, cognition, automaticity model (SCAM) of phishing susceptibility. Paper presented at International Communication Association’s annual conference, San Juan, PR, May 2015.

Sirianni, J., & Vishwanath, A. (2015). Paper Bad romance: Exploring the factors that influence revenge porn sharing amongst romantic partners. Paper presented at the National Communication Association’s annual conference, Las Vega, Nevada, November 2015

Sirriani, J. & Vishwanath, A.,  (2014, November). Problematic pornography use: A media attendance perspective. Paper presented at at National Communication Associationconference, Chicago, IL.

Vishwanath, A.,  (2014, May). Cues that communicate trust and lead to deception. Paper presented at panel on Trust and Credibility on the Internet at the International Communication Association conference, Seattle, WA.

Yang, R. & Vishwanath, A.,  (2013, November). Heursitics vs. systematic processing of online privacy policies. Paper presented at at National Communication Associationconference, Washington, DC.

Egnoto, M., Nam, Y., & Vishwanath, A. (2010, November). A longitudinal analysis of newspaper coverage of cell phones. Paper Paper presented at the National Communication Association conference, San Francisco, CA. Paper selected as top student paper in Technology division.

Vishwanath, A., Rao, H.R., Rui, C., Herath, T., & Wang, J. (2010, June). Why do people get phished? Testing individual  differences in phishing susceptiveness within an integrated, information processing model. Paper presented at the International Communication Association’s conference in Singapore.

Vishwanath, A., LaVail, K.H. (2010, June). My Mac is Better Than Your PC! The Role of Attributional Biases in the Diffusion of Innovations. Paper presented at the InternationalCommunication Association’s conference in Singapore.

Vishwanath, A., Rao, H.R., Rui, C., Herath, T., & Wang, J. (2009, August). Why do people get phishing? Testing individual  differences in phishing susceptiveness within an integrated, information processing model. Paper presented at the International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics held in Kochi, India. 

Vishwanath, A. (2009, May). The key to CAT. Panel session with Prf. Arun Vishwanath (SUNY Buffalo), Prof. Erik Bucy (Indiana University), Prof. Rich Ling (Telenor Research), and Prof. Lidwien van de Wijngaert (Twente U). Paper presented in the Communication and Technology division of the International Communication Association conference held in Chicago, IL. 

Vishwanath, A. (2008, May). Using Frames to Influence Consumer Willingness to Pay for the Patient Health Record (PHR): A Randomized Experiment. Paper presented at theInternational Communication Association conference held in Montreal, Canada.

Vishwanath, A. (2008, May). Physician Adoption of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA): Testing its Determinants Within a Structural Equation Model. Paper presented at theInternational Communication Association conference held in Montreal, Canada.

Vishwanath, A. (2008, May). From Theory to Practice: Evaluating Software Websites From a Diffusion Perspective. Paper presented at the scholar-to-scholar plenary poster session at the International Communication Association conference held in Montreal, Canada. Paper selected as a Top poster at the Information Systems Division. 

Vishwanath, A., & Chen, H. (2008, February). Personal Communication Technologies as an Extension of the Self: A Cross Cultural Comparison of People’s Associations with Technology and their Symbolic Proximity with Others. Paper presented at Exploring New Media Worlds, an international conference hosted by Texas A & M.  

Vishwanath, A. (2007, December). Modeling the Adoption of Multiple Complementary Technologies: A Collective Cognition Perspective. Paper presented at the International Conference on Technology Adoption held at the University of Twente, Netherlands.  

Vishwanath, A. (2007, May). From Beliefs to Intentions: The Impact of Framing on the Adoption of Innovations. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference held in San Francisco, CA. Paper selected as a Top 5 faculty paper at Communication and Technology Division. 

Vishwanath, A. (2007, May). The 360º news experience: Audience connections with the ubiquitous news organization. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference held in San Francisco, CA.

Vishwanath, A., & Scamurra, S. (2007, May). Barriers to the Adoption of Electronic Health Records: Using Concept Mapping to Develop a Comprehensive Empirical Model. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference held in San Francisco, CA.

Vishwanath, A., Winkelstein, P., & Singh, R.S. (2006, November). The Impact of Electronic Health Records on Outpatient Flow: An Evaluation of Pre- and Post-Implementation Expectations. Paper presented at the American Medical Informatics Association conference poster session held in Washington, D.C.

Vishwanath, A., & Scammura, D. S. (2006, June). Barriers to EHR adoption in health care. Paper presented at the Annual Patient Safety and Health IT Conference of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), Washington, D.C.

Vishwanath, A. (2006, June). Respondent: Communication and technology division session on “Mobile Devices and Ambient Intelligence” at the International Communication Association conference in Dresden, Germany.

Vishwanath, A. (2006, June). An examination of the characteristics of technology opinion leaders and seeker to be presented International Communication Associationconference in Dresden, Germany.

Vishwanath, A. (2005, May). Technology Clusters: Using Metric Multidimensional Scaling to Evaluate and Structure Technology Clusters. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference in New York, NY.

Vishwanath, A. (2005, May). Does Group Composition Matter? An Exploration in to the Impact of the Number of Opinion Seekers and Opinion Leaders on Technology Attitudes and Choices. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference in New York, NY.

Vishwanath, A. (2005, May). Information Search Sophistication: A New Construct and its Measure. Paper presented at the International Communication Associationconference in New York, NY.

Vishwanath, A. (2005, May). Respondent: Communication and technology division session on the “Psychological Dimensions of Online Interactions and Attitudes” at theInternational Communication Association conference in New York, NY.

Vishwanath, A. (2004, May). Role of personality in technology adoption. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference in New Orleans, LA.

Vishwanath, A. (2003, May). How interpersonal trust manifests online interactional behavior: A case study in online behavior. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference in San Diego, CA.

Vishwanath, A. (2003, May). An empirical investigation into the antecedents of cell phone adoption: Comparing the effects of innovation factors on attitudes and behavioral intent. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference in San Diego, CA.

Vishwanath, A. (2002, August). Global differences in internet diffusion: An empirical investigation into the effects of culture on the diffusion of the internet. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference, Miami, Florida.

Vishwanath, A. (2002, May). Cross cultural comparison of online auctions. Paper Presented at the International Communication Association conference in Seoul, South Korea.

Vishwanath, A., & Barnett, G .A. (2001, May). Reserve price effects on online auctions. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference at Washington D.C.

Vishwanath, A., & Barnett, G .A. (2000, May). Asynchronous bidding in online auctions. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference at Acapulco, Mexico.