TY - GEN
T1 - Sonifying Internet security threats
AU - Namin, Akbar Siami
AU - Jones, Keith S.
AU - Hewett, Rattikorn
AU - Pogrund, Rona
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Authors.
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - The Internet enables users to access vast resources, but it can also expose users to harmful cyber-attacks. It is imperative that users be informed about a security incident in a timely manner in order to make proper decisions. Visualization of security threats and warnings is one of the effective ways to inform users. However, visual cues are not always accessible to all users, and in particular, those with visual impairments. This late-breaking-work paper hypothesizes that the use of proper sounds in conjunction with visual cues can better represent security alerts to all users. Toward our research goal to validate this hypothesis, we first describe a methodology, referred to as sonification, to effectively design and develop auditory cyber-security threat indicators to warn users about cyber-attacks. Next, we present a case study, along with the results, of various types of usability testing conducted on a number of Internet users who are visually impaired. The presented concept can be viewed as a general framework for the creation and evaluation of human factor interactions with sounds in a cyber-space domain. The paper concludes with a discussion of future steps to enhance this work.
AB - The Internet enables users to access vast resources, but it can also expose users to harmful cyber-attacks. It is imperative that users be informed about a security incident in a timely manner in order to make proper decisions. Visualization of security threats and warnings is one of the effective ways to inform users. However, visual cues are not always accessible to all users, and in particular, those with visual impairments. This late-breaking-work paper hypothesizes that the use of proper sounds in conjunction with visual cues can better represent security alerts to all users. Toward our research goal to validate this hypothesis, we first describe a methodology, referred to as sonification, to effectively design and develop auditory cyber-security threat indicators to warn users about cyber-attacks. Next, we present a case study, along with the results, of various types of usability testing conducted on a number of Internet users who are visually impaired. The presented concept can be viewed as a general framework for the creation and evaluation of human factor interactions with sounds in a cyber-space domain. The paper concludes with a discussion of future steps to enhance this work.
KW - Internet security threats
KW - Sonification
KW - Usability testing
KW - Visually impaired
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014629553&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2851581.2892363
DO - 10.1145/2851581.2892363
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014629553
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2306
EP - 2313
BT - CHI EA 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -