Lab News

• July 31, 2024: Announcing APEX STATS Release 1.5! APEX STATS now offers 100% coverage of California Community Colleges C-ID descriptor objectives for Introduction to Statistics.
• January 17, 2024: We released the newest four modules in APEX STATS: Independent samples t-test, ANOVA, Bean Machine, and Sampling Techniques.
• July 26, 2023: Announcing APEX STATS Release 1.1: Open, editable, and modular resources that use Python to make it easier to teach introductory statistics
• July 25, 2023: We will be facilitating sessions at the 2023 APEX Summer Workshop
• August 26, 2022: Applications are being accepted for a Student Software Developer, Python
• April 18, 2022:

  Visit our posters at the 2022 Spartan Psychological Association Research Conference (SPARC) in Poster Presentations I (11:10-12:10 p.m.) and grab PDF versions here:

  • Pradhan, K. D., Norton, C. M., Chavarin, C., Tran, T. T., Mubarez, H., & Schuster, D. (2022, April 18). Evaluating macrocognitive awareness training [Poster presentation]. Spartan Psychological Association Research Conference, San Jose, CA. [ Poster ]
  • Norton, C. M. & Schuster, D. (2022, April 18). Exploring threat understanding and cyber hygiene behaviors using card sorting [Poster presentation]. Spartan Psychological Association Research Conference, San Jose, CA. [ Poster ]
  • Tran, T. T., Chavarin, C., Mubarez, H., Norton, C. M., Pradhan, K. D., & Schuster, D. (2022, April 18). Lessons learned recruiting cybersecurity students for human factors research [Poster presentation]. Spartan Psychological Association Research Conference, San Jose, CA. [ Poster ]
• March 7, 2022: We are seeking cybersecurity professionals to volunteer as research participants this spring as we complete our NSF-funded project. Visit vectr.study to learn more.
• January 5, 2022: We will be seeking cybersecurity professionals to volunteer as research participants this spring as we complete our NSF-funded project. Details will be posted here in the next few weeks.
• January 3, 2022: We are preparing for a productive research and teaching semester and ready to adapt to changing circumstances. Look for the latest guidance from SJSU at the Health Advisories website.
• August 16, 2021: Now accepting student research assistants for Fall 2021.
• December 11, 2020: Early access publication now available in the Cybersecurity Skills Journal: 2020 Special Issue on the NICE Framework.
• October, 2020: We presented work at the Western Psychological Assocation Centennial Convention:
  • Conetta, C., & Schuster, D. (2020, October 28-31). Individual differences in cyber security [Poster presentation]. Western Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. [ Available on demand ]
  • Fausett, C., Fisher, H., & Schuster, D. (2020, October 28-31). Informing best practices for cyber hygiene: A systematic literature review [Poster presentation]. Western Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. [ Available on demand ]
  • Ghavami, N. & Schuster, D. (2020, October 28-31). Implementing cybersecurity education in K-12 schooling to increase self-efficacy and STEM engagement [Poster presentation]. Western Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. [ Available on demand ]
  • Lee, C. & Schuster, D. (2020, October 28-31). Measuring the constructs of shared mental models in human-agent teams: A review [Poster presentation]. Western Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. [ Available on demand ]
  • Schuster, D. (2020, October 28-31). How psychology can solve our toughest technology problems [Keynote presentation]. Western Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. [ Thu., Oct. 29, 11:00am - 12:00pm ]
• October 6, 2020: Daniel Mabie presented, "Lessons Learned in Leveraging Existing Simulations for Cybersecurity Training, Evaluation, and Research" in session CYB1 at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.
• October 2020: Visit us virtually at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, the ErgoX Cybersecurity Track, and the Western Psychological Assocation Convention.
• April 2020: We were awarded a supplemental Research Experience for Undergraduates award from the NSF. This will fund two undergraduate research assistants in the lab during academic year 2020-2021.
• April 2020: Our lab continues to operate digitally. We are transitioning all of our active studies to online data collection.
• March 2020: WPA rescheduled for October 29 to November 1, 2020. Dr. David Schuster confirmed as a distinguished speaker for the Western Psychological Association's Centennial Convention
• January 2020: New article accepted for publication in Human Factors: Team combat identification: Effects of gender, spatial visualization, and disagreement
• October 2019: Joined a panel on effective and affordable ways to get talent at the Cybersecurity Symposium for Smart Cities
• June 2019: President Papazian highlights Dr. Schuster as an example of how "SJSU faculty members show us all how to excel and lead" (SJSU Newsroom)
• May 2019: Cyber Spartans encourage next generation of coders (SJSU Newsroom)
• Fall 2017: Dr. David Schuster awarded SJSU Research Foundation Early Career Investigator Award
• Spring 2016: VECTR PI receives NSF CAREER Award to study cognition in cybersecurity