Good vs. Evil

Abstract

While smart home devices are spreading rapidly, the privacy and security of users are key concerns. Many users struggle in acquiring and applying security recommendations to protect against malicious behavior in smart home systems, which can cause users to lose interest in this topic. Game-based learning is a powerful practice to increase the motivation of users in an entertaining and intuitive way. In this paper, we explore the effect of game premise on user's motivation and performance in an educational game. We designed a game with the aim to enlighten users about smart home security challenges. We developed two versions of the game with opposing game premises, a good and an evil, and compared them in a between-group experiment. The results show high motivation ratings in both versions of the game towards solving smart home security problems. However, there are no significant differences between the opposing game premises. CCS CONCEPTS • Security and privacy → Usability in security and privacy; • Human-centered computing → Information visualization.

CUI@CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs—From Design to Deployment

“…This workshop is being organized by a team of experienced researchers who bring expertise from diverse fields aligned with our objectives. Collectively, the organizers have a track record of publishing on a wide range of topics, including conversational user interfaces [11,18,20,26,27,46,47], human-robot interaction [8,30], multi-modal communication [3,7], and privacy and security [5,6,15,24]. Integrating these disciplines shall facilitate collaboration among our trans-disciplinary participants and bridge the gap between these research areas.…”

“…All accepted contributions from participants will be published on our workshop's website to ensure the broad dissemination of the workshop's findings. Additionally, a selection of the accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which we aspire to publish on arXiv 4 or ceur-ws 5 . Ideas and discussion points will be documented throughout the session on an open online platform, both during and after the symposium.…”