Rajagiri Round Table: Educating India- Listening to Innovative Teachers-76th Rajagiri Round Table  |  Cover Story: A New Era of Instructional Design  |  Best Practices: Continental Hospitals Set up a Super Specialty Clinic in IIT Hyderabad  |  Science Innovations: New cancer treatment developed by MIT  |  Leadership Instincts: Disappearance of Women researchers in Authorship during Pandemic  |  Technology Inceptions: MIT developed a New Successor for Mini Cheetah Robot  |  Science Innovations: IISc team develops novel computational model to predict ‘change blindness’  |  Science Innovations: Immune System Responds Better to Vaccination in Morning Hours  |  Teacher Insights: Training in Childhood Education, New Pedagogy Enabled Innovation in Teaching  |  International Policy: UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education 2021  |  Leadership Instincts: UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education 2021  |  Health Monitor: Intensive therapy better for Cerebral Palsy  |  Parent Interventions: Intensive therapy better for Cerebral Palsy  |  Science Innovations: Intensive therapy better for Cerebral Palsy  |  International Edu News: TutorComp- a new platform for online tutoring in UAE.  |  
May 28, 2019 Tuesday 10:39:42 PM IST

Setting Passwords for Preserving Childhood Memories and Future Thoughts

Management lessons

Many people create passwords to be used for various login purposes with the objective of preserving autobiographical memories or planning future activities, according to a new study.

The study conducted by Victoria University of Wellingdon showed that half of the respondents created passwords to preserve some childhood incidents, or streets they lived, pets they had in memory.Some people created passwords to keep them think of some events that may happen in the future, reports Robbie Taylor who did the research alongside Professor Gary from the University of Waikato.


The study was inspired by a New York Times article of 2014 which caused loss of large number of employees of companies who used passwords to digitally lock files. Finding personal information including childhood incidents from their family members helped them retrieve lot of pass words.

Source: https://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2019/05/passwords-serve-a-personal-purpose
Picture courtesy: Achinverma, Pixabay.com



Comments
 

RECOMMENDED NEWS

30-09-2021
Covid-19- New Model to Optimize Vaccin...
Management lessons
Every country in the world these days must make smart decisions about how to allocate vaccines and what sort of social distancing to mandate to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientists have constructed a model that policymakers can use to simulate their choices and find the optimal one."Our model can tell you, for instance, whether it makes more sense to vaccinate the elderly and demand more social distancing from adults or vice versa," says...
24-09-2021
Work Ethics for a Post Pandemic World
Management lessons
Covid-19 has clearly upended some established norms and lifestyles of the society. In fact, this pandemic in the past 18 months has forced us into a novel social experiment. Many of us have been witnessing such an experiment on a massive global scale; none like anything before. While aspects like physical distancing, mass vaccination, face masks, etc. are important aspects as countermeasures to this pandemic, these are leading to important social changes. An important so...
09-06-2021
Vaccines, Social Distancing, Facemasks...
Management lessons
Vaccines, social distancing, and face masks (VSF) are important tools in the toolkit to wage the war against COVID-19. Face masks are indeed one of the best precursors to nation-wide vaccination programs.In the United States, while the vaccination program was progressing, until reaching a manageable number of daily COVID-19 cases, mask mandates and other restrictions were in place in different States. According to the United States’ CDC, 140.4 million people have been fully...
04-06-2021
Essential Skill of the Future: Holding...
Management lessons
With more automation taking place, one of the essential skills that mankind may have to master for survival is how to hold one's attention while monitoring the tasks performed by fully programmed devices. A study funded by Australian Research Council and done by KIT-Macquarie Brain Research Laboratory showed situations when human attention drops off dramatically over a period of time. The experiment involved 21 subjects whose head was connected to Magnetoencephalogr...
08-05-2021
How Brands Use CARE to Stay on Top in ...
Management lessons
Statistics is often dry and unattractive to many no doubt.  Sometimes, if we pore deeper into facts or data that make up the statistic, it may be an interesting affair altogether.  One such is the fact that Instagram leads the table among top brands in Instagram platform with 390 mn followers. On the other hand Linkedin, Twitter or Facebook doesn't have great following on their own platforms. Facebook on Facebook has around 20 million followers compared to 392 milli...
08-04-2021
How to Secure Social Media Accounts fr...
Management lessons
Social media security compromises can result in tangible and intangible losses to individuals and corporate accounts. It can lead to losses on account of users not able to get information contained in posts and even stealing of employee credentials and hackers getting access to company's internal management systems.The high profile twitter accounts of President Barack Obama, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, were hacked. Most often the intention of a ...