Social navigation as a model for usable security

As interest in usable security spreads, the use of visual approaches in which the functioning of a distributed system is made visually available to end users is an approach that a number of researchers have examined. In this paper, we discuss the use of the social navigation paradigm as a way of organizing visual displays of system action. Drawing on a previous study of security in the Kazaa peer to peer system, we present some examples of the ways in which social navigation can be incorporated in support of usable security. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces – interaction styles. H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces –

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SOUPS
• Authors: Paul DiGioia, Paul Dourish
• Keywords: Information Interfaces, Social Navigation, SOUPS 2005, Usable Security