Nathan Good presented a user study of End-User License Agreements in which study participants were observed while installing software. Various test conditions displayed warnings, the EULA, and even a carefully handcrafted short version of the EULA, but most users ignored them and clicked through. Particularly interesting was the fact that users, when asked, [...]
This paper describes a user study inspired by Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt, in which the study participant is told they are working for a political campaign trying to use e-mail privately (without exposing their activities to opposing campaigns). The “Johnny 2″ study presented here used a similar scenario but added attackers. In the [...]
This paper described a graphical password technique where users were asked to click on 5 points in an image in the correct order.
There was some interesting discussion about how secure such as scheme is. I am left wondering if a simple eye-tracking study would reveal the dominant areas of a picture and then make a [...]