Oct 9, 2017 | Research
Advancements in information technology often task users with complex and consequential privacy and security decisions. A growing body of research has investigated individuals’ choices in the presence of privacy and information security tradeoffs, the decision-making...Apr 26, 2014 | Research
Anecdotal evidence and scholarly research have shown that Internet users may regret some of their online disclosures. To help individuals avoid such regrets, we designed two modifications to the Facebook web interface that nudge users to consider the content and...Jul 24, 2013 | Research
We designed and tested attractors for computer security dialogs: user-interface modifications used to draw users’ attention to the most important information for making decisions. Some of these modifications were purely visual, while others temporarily inhibited...Jul 24, 2013 | Research
Today’s smartphone applications expect users to make decisions about what information they are willing to share, but fail to provide sufficient feedback about which privacy sensitive information is leaving the phone, as well as how frequently and with which entities...Apr 1, 2013 | Research
The matrix barcodes known as Quick Response (QR) codes are rapidly becoming pervasive in urban environments around the world. QR codes are used to represent data, such as a web address, in a compact form that can be scanned readily and parsed by consumer mobile...