EAGER: Education-optional Security Usability on the Internet

安全很难使用，保持在线安全对每个人来说都是一个越来越大的挑战。这对缺乏经验的计算机用户尤其具有破坏性，他们可能无法发现风险指标，并可能曲解当前实施的文本解释和风险的视觉反馈。这项工作探索、评估和比较了几种在线安全教育模块对不同技能水平的用户的有效性，以及在遇到安全威胁时视觉反馈的重要性和有效性。这项由心理学家和计算机科学家发挥关键作用的跨学科工作正在开发和测试特定的用户反馈策略，以确定它们在防止用户犯下安全关键错误方面的相对有效性，并在发生安全故障时明确通知用户。这项研究是确定哪些有效，哪些无效，以及让用户关注可能被忽视的重要风险信号的关键一步。

Security is very difficult to use, and staying safe online is a growing challenge for everyone. It is especially devastating to inexperienced computer users, who may not spot risk indicators and may misinterpret currently implemented textual explanations and visual feedback of risk. This work explores, evaluates, and compares the effectiveness of several online safety education modules for users of various skill levels and the importance and effectiveness of visual feedback when encountering security threats. This interdisciplinary work, with psychologists and computer scientists playing crucial roles, is developing and testing specific user feedback strategies to determine their relative effectiveness in keeping users from making security-critical mistakes, and unambiguously informing users when security failures have occurred. This research is a vital step to determine what works, what does not work, and to get users to pay attention to important risk signals that may otherwise go unnoticed.