The Fog of Warnings: How Non-essential Notifications Blur with Security Warnings
summary
Online experiment on Firefox with 600 participants uses a Batman image classification task to inject 15 repeated performance notifications and a one-time security prompt placed either first or fifteenth. Attention and behavior are measured by mouse cursor tracking and click-through rates; security dismissal rises when the warning appears after 15 exposures. The effect is due to stimulus generalization not fatigue, scales with visual similarity, and is reduced by changing interaction mode (drag/swipe) and corroborated by fMRI confirms.
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- 0:00The Fog of Warnings: How Non-essential Notifications Blur with Security Warnings Anthony Vance Temple University
- 1:38Design Principles
- 3:37Decreased response to repeated stimulation
- 4:59Does habituation to non- security-related notifications generalize to security warnings?
- 5:16Does the degree of look- and-feel similarity influence the amount of generalization of habituation?
- 6:18Method
- 6:42Experimental task
- 11:55Dependent variables
- 12:30Response time
- 14:23Take-aways
- 14:402. The difference in responding is not due to fatigue
- 14:50The closer the similarity, the greater the generalization
- 15:09Design security messages to be visually distinct
- 15:35Further questions
- 15:591. Is there evidence for generalization in the brain?
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