EAGER: Education-optional Security Usability on the Internet

安全性很难使用，保持在线安全对每个人来说都是一个越来越大的挑战。这对没有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，并且可能误解当前实施的文本解释和风险的视觉反馈。这项工作探讨，评估和比较几个在线安全教育模块的有效性，为用户的各种技能水平和视觉反馈的重要性和有效性时，遇到安全威胁。这项跨学科的工作，与心理学家和计算机科学家发挥关键作用，正在开发和测试特定的用户反馈策略，以确定其相对有效性，防止用户犯安全关键错误，并明确通知用户时，安全故障发生。这项研究是确定哪些有效，哪些无效，以及让用户注意可能被忽视的重要风险信号的重要一步。

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.