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Everything's Cool: Extending Security Warnings with Thermal Feedback

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CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053127

Published: 06 May 2017 Publication History

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Today's web security warnings often rely on visual cues such as colour, e.g., red URL highlighting indicates a security risk. However, such cues often go unnoticed by users and, even when noticed, are ignored. Our aim is to investigate the potential for using other modalities to improve comprehension of, and adherence to, security warnings, starting with thermal feedback. Thermal stimulation has inherent links to emotion and danger, so may provide unique advantages over current visual cues. However, interpretation of feedback varies, so research is needed to measure associations. We used an online questionnaire (n=45) and lab study (n=12) to investigate whether people associate a particular temperature range with different states of web security. Our results indicate that people generally associate a cold temperature with a secure page and warm with an insecure page, findings we will take forward into future work on the effect of thermal feedback on security-related behaviour

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1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Napoli DBaig KMaqsood SChiasson SChiasson S(2021)"I'm literally just hoping this will work"Proceedings of the Seventeenth USENIX Conference on Usable Privacy and Security10.5555/3563572.3563586(263-280)Online publication date: 9-Aug-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3563572.3563586
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