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Hao Chen is an Associate Professor at the School of Business, Qingdao University, China. He received his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Dalian University of Technology in China. He was invited as a visiting PhD student to DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada in 2017. His research focuses on privacy and information security management, user behaviors in the emerging information system. His work has appeared in journals such as Information and Management, Information Technology and People, Behaviour and Information Technology and Information and Computer Security and several conferences on privacy and behavioral information systems, such as Paciflc Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS).

Ofir Turel is a Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at the College of Business and Economics, California State University, Fullerton and a Scholar in Residence at the Brain and Creativity Institute, Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC). He holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering, an MBA in Technology Management and a PhD in Management Information Systems. His research interests include a broad range of behavioral, bio-physiological and managerial issues in various information systems use contexts. He has published more than 90 articles in business, research methods, psychology, psychiatry and medicine journals. Examples of business outlets include MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, MIT Sloan Management Review, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal and Communications of the ACM. Examples of psychology outlets include Journal of Psychiatric Research, Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, Substance Use and Misuse, Social Neuroscience, Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Scientific Reports and Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.

Yufei Yuan is a Professor of Information Systems at DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from The University of Michigan in U.S. and B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University in China. His research interests are in the areas of security, privacy and trust, emergency response systems, web-based negotiation support systems, mobile commerce, business model of electronic commerce, fuzzy logic and expert systems, matching problems and information systems in healthcare. He has more than 80 papers published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Security and Privacy, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Management, International Journal of Mobile Communications, Group Decision and Negotiation, Decision Support Systems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences, Management Sciences and others.