College students overwhelmingly prefer short, mobile-friendly gamified security training over long desktop training or videos¶

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q2 i? 92% of general students (46/50) agreed or strongly agreed that they preferred the short, mobile-friendly game format over long desktop training or videos, with 72% selecting Strongly Agree. → Bingjun Li 2025

Evidence¶

Bingjun Li 2025¶

Bingjun Li, Christopher Buzaid, Weihao Qu. (2025). Security Education in Higher Education through AI-Powered Gamification. Journal of Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics and Jurisprudence. https://doi.org/10.65879/3070-5789.2025.01.07

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Preference questionnaire of 50 general students across diverse majors after gameplay on personal mobile devices in a BYOD scenario, analyzed with descriptive statistics. The survey found "92% of participants (46/50) agreed or strongly agreed" in favor of the mobile format; no effect size is reported.

"When asked if they preferred this type of short, mobile-friendly game over long desktop training or videos, 92% of participants (46/50) agreed or strongly agreed."

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