Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the usability of the Texas Data Repository (TDR) for the data depositors who are unfamiliar with its interface and use the results to improve user experience.
Methods: This mixed-method research study collected qualitative and quantitative data through a pre-survey, a task-oriented usability test with a think-aloud protocol, and an exit questionnaire. Analysis of the quantitative (i.e., descriptive statistics) and qualitative data (e.g., content...

The huge push to multifactor authentication (MFA) is ostensibly to help people avoid getting so easily phished. But are we making the same mistake with MFA and making too much of it too easily phishable? Will we be pushing our organizations and end-users to MFA only to repeat many of the same mistak

Special needs children can use the Internet safely every day with the right encouragement, guidance, tailored lessons, and gamification.

Information Security 101#infosec #informationsecurity #cats #users pic.twitter.com/EHHT2vLX4h— Rafael Teixeira (@rpteixeira) September 25, 2019

Twitter has revealed in its latest transparency report that only 2.3% of all active accounts have enabled at least one method of two-factor authentication (2FA) between July and December 2020.

Good example of friction -- habituation -- counterproductive results

The truth about #infosec policies.... pic.twitter.com/mC69TE09DR— Chris Kubecka 🇵🇷 ✈️ #BLM @MiddleEastInst (@SecEvangelism) September 9, 2021

Finding aids have long been an essential part of archivists’ work. To create a finding aid is to create a surrogate of an archival collection. Multiple levels of description are used to distill information about the unique groupings and parts of a collection and to place its content into context. Archivists make decisions about what to include in a finding aid based on their own judgment as trained professionals, but also with the intent to create a finding aid that will be genuinely helpful to researchers. Indeed, as the revised principles of Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) state: “Users are the fundamental reason for archival description… To make wise choices about descriptive practices, archivists must develop and maintain an awareness of user needs and behaviors.” The practical challenge facing archivists is knowing what users will find helpful. Although archivists often seek to center users in their processes of description, these efforts are often based on guesses concerning what users will find useful. Very little research has been done to understand how users read and navigate archival description; there is a distinct disconnect between the intention of centering users and carrying out usability or user studies to under user needs. This study is intended to advance our understanding on this matter, responding to two questions: Do researchers use collection or series level notes valued by archivists, such as scope and content and arrangement notes, in order to understand what is in a collection? Or, do users rely mostly on information found at lower levels, describing what might be in a single file or the content of a single item? And, working in the post "MPLP" context, if granular description is not available in a finding aid, are users able to ascertain what is in a collection and if it is relevant to their search?

The smart home was supposed to be the next big computing platform. Now it seems lost in a fog of frustration.

A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume…

They're... not great.

The technology that once made cars nearly impossible to steal has ushered in a new era of joyriding in some cities, thanks to carelessness with key fobs.

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A condition called privacy fatigue may lead you to let down your filters.

Interesting analogy between COVID fatigue and security fatigue.