Document Type
Conference Paper
Journal/Book Title/Conference
2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Publication Date
11-13-2024
Journal Article Version
Version of Record
First Page
437
Last Page
443
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
With the increasing use of computers and smartphones by children, their online safety has become a major concern due to the lack of security awareness. Prior studies pointed to children's poor password habit and vague perceptions on the significance of passwords. While users must be sufficiently motivated to perform a target behavior, a little study to date, focused on understanding how we can encourage children towards strong password creation. As we begin to address this gap, we examined children's perceptions of adversary's actions that instill fear in the context of password compromise. Our semi-structured interviews with 20 children (aged between 8 and 12) reveal their concerns around a hacker, which inform future designs how fear appeal can be leveraged as a motivational tool for children towards strong passwords.
Recommended Citation
Rizu Paudel and Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen. 2024. Hacker, Their Actions, and Fear Appeal: A First Look Through the Lens of Children. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 437–443. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681888