USEC Survey scales
Jun 18, 2024·
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Kami Vaniea
Personal list of survey scales useful in Usable Security research. The list is not comprehensive and instead represents scales I have been exposed to or seen presented.
General USEC scales
security and privacy attitudes, opinions, awareness, and behavior self-report
- Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concerns (IUIPC)
- A Self-Report Measure of End-User Security Attitudes (SA-6)
- Scaling the security wall: Developing a security behavior intentions scale (SeBIS)
General HCI scales
- System Usability Scale (SUS) - rough measure of usability. Well verified. It measures how much someone liked using a system and is likely to want to use it again.
- NASA-TLX - Measures perceived workload the user experienced while interacting with the system. This measure is a mix of the task the user was engaged in and the interface, but it still helps understand how challenging it was for the user to perform a task on a system.
- SUS vs NASA-TLX - Nice writeup by the Nielsen Norman Group
Authors
Kami Vaniea
(she/her)
Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) where I head the Technology Usability Lab in Privacy and Security (TULiPS). The goal of my research is to make security and privacy technologies more accessible for a wide range of users including end users, developers, and system administrators. I believe that technology should support people in their activities. My recent projects include topics like patch management, developer-centered privacy, phishing, online anonymity, smart speaker privacy, and privacy on social media.