The Sounds of Cyber Threats
It addresses cyber-security threats for visually impaired users, but the work appears incremental as it builds on existing sonification methods in a specific domain.
This paper tackled the problem of warning users about cyber-attacks by investigating the use of sounds, specifically sonification, to design auditory threat indicators, and it presented results from usability testing with visually impaired Internet users.
The Internet enables users to access vast resources, but it can also expose users to harmful cyber-attacks. This paper investigates human factors issues concerning the use of sounds in a cyber-security domain. It describes a methodology, referred to as sonification, to effectively design and develop auditory cyber-security threat indicators to warn users about cyber-attacks. A case study is presented, along with the results, of various types of usability testing with a number of Internet users who are visually impaired. The paper concludes with a discussion of future steps to enhance this work.