Sorry, i don't get it: An analysis of warning message texts

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7862 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 94-111

  Harbach, Marian ^a   Fahl, Sascha ^a   Yakovleva, Polina ^a   Smith, Matthew ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Readability; Usable security; Warning messages

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY; LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES; PERCEIVED DIFFICULTIES; READABILITY; USABLE SECURITY; WARNING MESSAGES;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; LINGUISTICS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 84892862299     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41320-9_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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