SaTC: CORE: Small: The Blurring of Non-essential Notifications and Critical Security Warnings: Examining the Problem of Generalization in the Brain

该项目衡量了对频繁软件通知的关注度降低如何对人们对真正关键的不常见安全警告的反应产生负面影响。研究人员将使用眼球跟踪设备来检查这个问题，方法是通过眼神凝视模式测量人们对通知和警告的注意力，以及个人对这些信息做出的决定。他们将观察单一计算设备(如笔记本电脑)的环境如何发生变化，以及跨设备注意力的减少，例如移动设备上的频繁通知如何影响人们对台式计算机上不常见的安全警告的反应。通过使用眼睛跟踪和功能磁共振成像(FMRI)技术的一系列实验室实验，研究人员将检查习惯于频繁的软件通知概括或继承不常见的安全警告的条件。这些条件包括通知和警告之间的视觉外观和交互模式(即外观和感觉)的相似性、通知量，以及这些因素是否会导致跨设备进行泛化。他们还考察了人们如何通过遵守警告建议来成功地对安全警告做出行为反应。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project measures how decreased attention to frequent software notifications negatively influences peoples' responses to uncommon security warnings that are truly critical. The researchers will use eye tracking equipment to examine this problem by measuring attention to notifications and warnings through eye gaze patterns, and individuals' decisions in response to these messages. They will observe how changes occur in the context of a single computing device, such as a laptop computer, as well as diminished attention across devices, such as how frequent notifications on a mobile device affect people's responses to uncommon security warnings on a desktop computer.Through a series of laboratory experiments using eye tracking and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technologies, the researchers will examine the conditions under which habituation to frequent software notifications generalizes, or carries over, to uncommon security warnings. These conditions include the similarity of visual appearance and mode of interaction (i.e., look and feel) between notifications and warnings, the volume of notifications, and whether these factors cause generalization to occur across devices. They also examine how people behaviorally respond successfully to security warnings by adhering to the warning recommendations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.