This video showcases a custom built resin housing for the Samsung Galaxy S3 to visualize security zones.
The full paper “Only play in your comfort zone: interaction methods for improving security awareness on mobile devices” (by Peter Riedl, Rene Mayrhofer, Andreas Möller, Matthias Kranz, Florian Lettner, Clemens Holzmann, Marion Koelle) describing the scientific background of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0840-5 (a preprint version of the paper is also available from our website: https://usmile.at/sites/default/files/publications/preprint_0.pdf)
*** Abstract ***
n this paper, we study the concept of security zones as an intermediate layer of compartmentalization on mobile devices. Each of these security zones is isolated against the other zones and holds a different set of applications and associated user data and may apply different security policies. From a user point of view, they represent different contexts of use for the device, e.g., to distinguish between gaming (private context), payment transactions (secure context), and company-related email (enterprise context). We propose multiple visualization methods for conveying the current security zone information to the user, and interaction methods for switching between zones. Based on an online and a laboratory user study, we evaluated these concepts from a usability point of view. One important result is that in the tension field between security and usability, additional hardware can support the user’s awareness toward their zone context.
*** Acknowledgements ***
This work has been carried out within the scope of “u’smile”, the
Josef Ressel Center for User-Friendly Secure Mobile Environments, funded by the Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft (CDG) from funds of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung, as well as by A1 Telekom Austria AG, Drei-Banken-EDV GmbH, LG Nexera Business Solutions AG, NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH, and Österreichische Staatsdruckerei GmbH.
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