Anthony Vance
Associate Professor
at
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
The famous quote “Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time” stands at the beginning of Anthony Vance’s talk.
Yet, why are users behaving like this? And why have 20 years of friends getting hacked, near-daily press coverage of security incidents and tedious awareness programs failed to change this fundamental behaviour pattern? Our speaker used combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and traditional usability testing to examine users while surfing the web and watching video clips.
The results reveal a substantial effect of neurobiology on user’s security behaviour.
It is worth looking at his results in detail.
But Anthony will also suggest practical ways to improve the security via a better design of user interfaces.
Interfaces written with the awareness of the fact that neurobiological fundamentals are hard to change.
His presentation will include various examples and suggestions in this direction.