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。对于没有经验的计算机用户来说，这尤其具有破坏性，他们可能无法发现风险指标，并可能误解目前实施的文本解释和视觉风险反馈。本研究探索、评估和比较了针对不同技能水平用户的几个在线安全教育模块的有效性，以及在遇到安全威胁时视觉反馈的重要性和有效性。这项跨学科的工作，心理学家和计算机科学家扮演着关键的角色，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地通知用户。这项研究是确定什么有效，什么无效的重要步骤，并让用户注意到可能被忽视的重要风险信号。

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.