Dissertation
Rick Wash. ”Motivating Contributions for Home Computer Security.” University of Michigan, 2009. (PDF)
Chair: Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
Journal Publications
Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rick Wash. “An Economic Solution to Unsolicited Communications,” Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 6, no. 1, Berkeley Electronic Press 2006 (Journal Page, Cached Copy)
Conference Proceedings
Rick Wash. “Folk Models of Home Computer Security,” Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2010. (PDF)
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, and Elif Yilmaz. “Motivations to Participate in Online Communities.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). May 2009. (PDF)
Emilee Rader and Rick Wash. “Influences on Tag Choices in del.icio.us,” Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), November 2008 (PDF, Appendix)
Rick Wash and Emilee Rader. “Public Bookmarks and Private Benefits: An Analysis of Incentives in Social Computing,“ Proceedings of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. December 2007 (PDF)
Rick Wash and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. “Security When People Matter: Structuring Incentives for User Behavior.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce, August 2007. (PDF)
Rick Wash, Libby Hemphill, and Paul Resnick. “Design Decisions in the RideNow Project” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP), 2005 (PDF)
Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rick Wash. ”An Economic Solution to the Spam Problem“ Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2004. (PDF, PS)
Refereed Workshop Presentation
Rick Wash and Jeff MacKie-Mason. “A Social Mechanism for Home Computer Security,” Presented at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), December 2008. (PDF)
Rick Wash and Emilee Rader, “Understanding del.icio.us Tag Choice Using Simulations,” Presented at iConference 2008, Paper Track. February 2008. (PDF)
Rick Wash and Jeff MacKie-Mason. “Incentive Centered Design and Information Security,” Presented at the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec). July 2006. (PDF)
Jose Nazario, Jeremy Anderson, Rick Wash, and Chris Connelly. The Future of Internet Worms. Presented at the BlackHat Briefings, July 2001. (PDF, PS)
Extended Abstracts
Rick Wash. “Mental Models of Home Computer Security,” Extended Abstract at SOUPS (Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security) 2008 Poster Session. May 2008. (PDF)
Rick Wash, “Incentive Design for Home Computer Security.“ Extended Abstract at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2007 Doctoral Consortium. January 2007. (PDF)
Emilee Rader and Rick Wash, “Tagging with Del.icio.us: Social or Selfish?“ Extended Abstract at Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 06 Poster Session. November 2006. (PDF, Poster)
Working Papers
Rick Wash and Jeff MacKie-Mason. “Using a Minimum Threshold to Motivate Contributions to Social Computing,” Working Paper, June 2009. (PDF)
Rick Wash. “Content Provision and Digital Rights Management.” Working Paper, December 2005. (PDF)
Rick Wash. “Lecture Notes on Stream Ciphers and RC4.” Working Paper, September 26, 2001. (PDF, PS)