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

该项目测量了人们对频繁软件通知的关注度降低如何对人们对真正重要的不常见安全警告的反应产生负面影响。研究人员将使用眼动追踪设备来研究这个问题，通过眼睛注视模式测量对通知和警告的注意力，以及个人对这些信息的反应。他们将观察单个计算设备（例如笔记本电脑）环境中如何发生变化，以及设备之间注意力的减弱，例如移动终端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。通过一系列使用眼球追踪和功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）技术的实验室实验，研究人员将研究在什么情况下，习惯于频繁的软件通知一般化，或携带，不常见的安全警告。这些条件包括视觉外观和交互模式的相似性（即，外观和感觉）、通知的数量以及这些因素是否导致跨设备发生泛化。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.