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Security and usability research using a microworld environment

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MobileHCI '09: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Article No.: 54, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/1613858.1613925

Published: 15 September 2009 Publication History

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Technological developments and the addition of new features to existing applications or services require the inclusion of security mechanisms to protect the user. When using these mechanisms the user faces a tradeoff between more risky and more efficient or safer and less efficient use of the system. We discuss this tradeoff and present a novel complementary experimental system which provides researchers and corporations the ability to explore and model the usability and security tradeoff in the context of user interaction with security systems and psychological acceptability, even before the actual development and implementation processes have ended.

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MobileHCI '09: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

September 2009

473 pages

ISBN:9781605582818

DOI:10.1145/1613858

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Reinhard Oppermann
Fraunhofer FIT
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Markus Eisenhauer
Fraunhofer FIT
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Matthias Jarke
RWTH Aachen + Fraunhofer FIT
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Volker Wulf
University of Siegen + Fraunhofer FIT

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