.... The authors test the design for usability and perceived information control using psychometrically validated scales. For this purpose, two variations of the prototype (MyCam1 with a listing of data-related privacy controls and MyCam2 with three privacy presets) were created and tested them in a between...

... state of privacy. Design/methodology/approach The authors give a precise definition of Privacy Labeling (PL), painting a panoptic portrait from seven different perspectives: Business, Legal, Regulatory, Usability and Human Factors, Educative, Technological and Multidisciplinary. They describe...

...Suncica Hadzidedic; Silvia Fajardo-Flores; Belma Ramic-Brkic Purpose This paper aims to address the user perspective about usability, security and use of five authentication schemes (text and graphical passwords, biometrics and hardware tokens) from a population not covered previously...

... constructs that create security and to investigate usability concerns relating to the memory and typing issues concerning passphrases, this study was guided by three theories as follows: Shannon’s entropy theory was used to assess security, chunking theory to analyse memory issues and the keystroke level...

...Markus Lennartsson; Joakim Kävrestad; Marcus Nohlberg Purpose For decades, literature has reported on the perceived conflict between usability and security. This mutual trade-off needs to be considered and addressed whenever security products are developed. Achieving well-balanced levels of both...

...Bilal Naqvi; Nathan Clarke; Jari Porras Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an integrative framework for handling the security and usability conflicts during the system development lifecycle. The framework has been formulated while considering key concerns raised after conducting...

... users to create usable and secure passwords. Joakim Kävrestad can be contacted at: joakim.kavrestad@his.se While the research and practitioner communities are well aware of the problems just described, the issue of users choosing insecure passwords remains and many organizations keep complexity...

...Erik Framner; Simone Fischer-Hübner; Thomas Lorünser; Ala Sarah Alaqra; John Sören Pettersson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a usable configuration management for Archistar, which utilizes secret sharing for redundantly storing data over multiple independent storage clouds...

... for users. While many aspects of passwords have been studied, no research to date has systematically examined how ambiguous terminology affects user comprehension of password rules. Design/methodology/approach This research used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods in a usable security...

... were designed and carried out to evaluate and improve the scheme. Timing was important as response time data was one of the usability measures applied. As such, the laboratory studies were useful in allowing participant observation, ensuring that the comparison task was carried out in a reasonable...

... credentials. The last iteration of the prototype has been tested using a cognitive walkthrough approach. Findings Results from usability tests show that users understood and appreciate most of the features contained within the interface and they perceived their benefit for protecting their privacy online...