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View article: Avoid equipment graveyards: rigorous process to improve identification and procurement of effective, affordable, and usable newborn devices in low-resource hospital settings
Avoid equipment graveyards: rigorous process to improve identification and procurement of effective, affordable, and usable newborn devices in low-resource hospital settings Open
Background Millions of newborns die annually from preventable causes, with the highest rates occurring in Africa. Reducing neonatal mortality requires investment to scale hospital care, which includes providing hospitals with appropriate t…
View article: The Trust in Voting Systems (TVS) Measure
The Trust in Voting Systems (TVS) Measure Open
It is essential to democracy that voters trust voting systems enough to participate in elections and use these systems. Unfortunately, voter trust has been found to be low in many situations, which could detrimentally impact human-computer…
View article: Bad Tools Hurt: Lessons for teaching computer security skills to undergraduates
Bad Tools Hurt: Lessons for teaching computer security skills to undergraduates Open
Understanding why developers continue to misuse security tools is critical to designing safer software, yet the underlying reasons developers fail to write secure code are not well understood. In order to better understand how to teach the…
View article: Embedding Ethical Principles into the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: Interactive Discussion with the Code of Ethics Task Force
Embedding Ethical Principles into the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society: Interactive Discussion with the Code of Ethics Task Force Open
The society’s code of ethics was last updated in 2005 and thus needs to be reviewed and updated. To do so, the previous code of ethics was reviewed as well as other documentation particularly with respect to inclusion. The goal of the Code…
View article: How Human Factors Can Help Preserve Democracy in the Age of Pandemics
How Human Factors Can Help Preserve Democracy in the Age of Pandemics Open
Objective To describe user-centered voting systems that would support the safe conduct of voting in a pandemic environment. Background The COVID-19 pandemic has complicated our democratic processes. Voters and poll workers feel threatened …
View article: How to Succeed In Industry (As A UX Researcher): Strategies and Skills to Maximize Your Impact
How to Succeed In Industry (As A UX Researcher): Strategies and Skills to Maximize Your Impact Open
While methods courses tied to human-computer interaction or usability may provide some fundamentals to prepare students for success in industry, other skills are better learned on-the-job. The following industry professionals will provide …
View article: An examination of the effort hypothesis for the perceived strength of passwords
An examination of the effort hypothesis for the perceived strength of passwords Open
Previous work has examined whether keyboards that have multiple levels of entry (e.g., soft keyboards, found on mobile devices) increase users’ perceptions of password security. That work found that passwords that required greater numbers …
View article: Summative Usability Assessments of STAR-Vote: A Cryptographically Secure e2e Voting System That Has Been Empirically Proven to Be Easy to Use
Summative Usability Assessments of STAR-Vote: A Cryptographically Secure e2e Voting System That Has Been Empirically Proven to Be Easy to Use Open
Background: From the project’s inception, STAR-Vote was intended to be one of the first usable, end-to-end (e2e) voting systems with sophisticated security. To realize STAR-Vote, computer security experts, statistical auditors, human facto…
View article: From Error to Error: Why Voters Could not Cast a Ballot and Verify Their Vote With Helios, Prêt à Voter, and Scantegrity II
From Error to Error: Why Voters Could not Cast a Ballot and Verify Their Vote With Helios, Prêt à Voter, and Scantegrity II Open
The aim of this paper is to identify user errors, and the related potential design deficiencies, that contributed to participants failing to vote cast and vote verify across three end-to-end voting systems: Helios, Prêt à Voter, and Scante…