An evaluation of a multiple interface design solution for bloated software
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
User Interaction Design for Secure Systems
ICICS '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communications Security
Humans in the Loop: Human-Computer Interaction and Security
IEEE Security and Privacy
A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research
A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research
Aligning Security and Usability
IEEE Security and Privacy
Security in the wild: user strategies for managing security as an everyday, practical problem
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Communications of the ACM - The disappearing computer
Two experiences designing for effective security
SOUPS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 symposium on Usable privacy and security
Improving user-interface dependability through mitigation of human error
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special isssue: HCI research in privacy and security is critical now
Seeing further: extending visualization as a basis for usable security
SOUPS '06 Proceedings of the second symposium on Usable privacy and security
International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, Second Edition - 3 Volume Set
International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, Second Edition - 3 Volume Set
User help techniques for usable security
Proceedings of the 2007 symposium on Computer human interaction for the management of information technology
Why Johnny can't encrypt: a usability evaluation of PGP 5.0
SSYM'99 Proceedings of the 8th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 8
Sesame: informing user security decisions with system visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Expandable grids for visualizing and authoring computer security policies
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A framework for reasoning about the human in the loop
UPSEC'08 Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Usability, Psychology, and Security
"When I am on Wi-Fi, I am fearless": privacy concerns & practices in eeryday Wi-Fi use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Security automation considered harmful?
NSPW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on New Security Paradigms
Investigating an appropriate design for personal firewalls
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Improving users' security choices on home wireless networks
Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Assurable and usable security configuration
Filter-based access control model: exploring a more usable database management
Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for the Management of Information Technology
A brick wall, a locked door, and a bandit: a physical security metaphor for firewall warnings
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
An operating system for the home
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
The usability of truecrypt, or how i learned to stop whining and fix an interface
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy
Mental models of verifiability in voting
Vote-ID'13 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on E-Voting and Identity
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The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on the security state of the firewall may result in users developing an incorrect mental model of the protection provided by the firewall. We present a study of participants' mental models of Vista Firewall (VF). We investigated changes to those mental models and their understanding of the firewall's settings after working with both the VF basic interface and our prototype. Our prototype was designed to support development of a more contextually complete mental model through inclusion of network location and connection information. We found that participants produced richer mental models after using the prototype than when working with the VF basic interface; they were also significantly more accurate in their understanding of the configuration of the firewall. Based on our results, we discuss methods of improving user understanding of underlying system states by revealing hidden context, while considering the tension between complexity of the interface and security of the system.