Malicious interface design: Exploiting the user

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 271-280

  Conti, Gregory ^a   Sobiesk, Edward ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

adversarial interface design; design principles; evil interfaces; malicious interfaces; web usability guidelines

Indexed keywords

ART AND SCIENCE; BEST PRACTICE; EASE OF USE; IDEAL WORLDS; INTERFACE DESIGNS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; WEB USABILITY;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 77954568098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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