How does this message make you feel? A study of user perspectives on software update/warning message design

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-26

  Fagan, Michael ^a   Khan, Mohammad Maifi Hasan ^a   Nguyen, Nhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective cognitive design; Update message design; User experiences; User opinions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; VIRUSES;

DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MULTIPLE ITERATIONS; SYSTEM VULNERABILITY; UPDATE MESSAGES; USER OPINIONS; USER PERSPECTIVES; WARNING MESSAGES;

USER EXPERIENCE;

EID: 84950291360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13673-015-0053-y     Document Type: Article

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