Human Centered Methods to Communicate Security & Privacy Critical Information in Virtual Reality

虚拟现实正变得越来越便宜，很快就会在社会中无处不在。然而，目前这项技术还没有出现，因为虚拟现实可能会给用户带来他们可能没有意识到的安全和隐私风险。例如，敏感信息的未加密通信，未经同意的数据收集，甚至是用于查看设备周围环境的虚拟现实耳机，这可能导致泄露机密信息甚至勒索。我们还没有提供在虚拟现实中与用户进行通信的方法，当他们的数据被收集或存在安全漏洞时。该项目旨在保护用户在使用虚拟现实时的网络安全和隐私。这将通过利用虚拟现实中的能力来实现，以开发识别威胁并向用户传达安全和隐私信息的新方法。这项工作将有助于创造一个环境，支持虚拟现实用户通知，更重要的是，提供知识，以保护自己免受安全漏洞和数据，这些漏洞和数据是在没有用户事先知情或同意的情况下收集的。

Virtual Reality is becoming more affordable and will soon become ubiquitous within society.However, currently the technology is not there yet, as virtual reality can pose security and privacyrisks to a user which they may not be aware of. Such as, unencrypted communications of sensitiveinformation, unconsented data collection or even the virtual reality headset being used to view thedevices' surroundings, which could lead to disclosing confidential information or even blackmail.We have yet to provide methods to communicate to a user within virtual reality, when their datais being collected or if a security vulnerability is present. This project aims to preserve a users'cyber security and privacy when using virtual reality. This will be achieved by taking advantage ofthe capabilities seen within virtual reality to develop novel methods of identifying threats andcommunicating security and privacy information to a user. This work will contribute to creating anenvironment that supports virtual reality users to inform and more importantly, provide knowledgeto protect themselves from security vulnerabilities and data that is being collected potentiallywithout the users' prior knowledge or consent.