"Hacker, Their Actions, And Fear Appeal: A First Look Through the Lens " by Rizu Paudel and Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen
 

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

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 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.

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