Apr 10, 2010 | Research library
This paper discusses the prevalent issue of users often dismissing security dialogs without much thought. Previous research has demonstrated that user responses to security dialogs become significantly more thoughtful when the dialogs are polymorphic, and further...
Mar 17, 2010 | Research library
This study examined the ways in which Internet users construct their risk judgments about online privacy. The results, based on telephone survey data from a national probability sample in Singapore (n = 910), revealed that (a) individuals distinguish between two...
Mar 2, 2010 | Report, Research library
In an effort to aid policy makers seeking to change behaviour, a team of researchers summarise nine non-coercive influencers of human behaviour: the messanger (who a message comes from); incentives (such as loss avoidance); norms (what other people already do);...
Feb 19, 2010 | Research library
Although online retailers detail their privacy practices in online privacy policies, this information often remains invisible to consumers, who seldom make the effort to read and understand those policies. This paper reports on research undertaken to determine whether...
Feb 17, 2010 | Research library
This study aims to understand the factors that influence college students to use anti-spyware tools, with the goal of informing future students about the spyware epidemic and ways to combat it. The research involved structured interviews and a survey, revealing...
Feb 16, 2010 | Book, Research library
According to this book’s authors, we need only understand how our minds work to unlock shortcuts that can lead to long term behavour change. This book explores how our minds work and some shortcuts that might be of use when seeking to change human behaviour....
