With the introduction of Extended Validation SSL certificates in Internet Explorer 7.0, web browsers are introducing new indicators to convey status information about different types of certificates. We carried out a user study which compared a proposed new interface in the Mozilla Firefox browser with an alternative interface of our own design to investigate how users react to these new indicators. Our study included eye tracking data which provided empirical evidence with respect to which parts of the browser interface users tended to look at during the study and which areas went unnoticed. Our results show that, while the new interface features in the unmodified Firefox browser went unnoticed by all users in our study, the modified design was noticed by over half of the participants, and most users show a willingness to adopt these features once made aware of their functionality.
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机译:随着Internet Explorer 7.0中扩展验证SSL证书的引入,Web浏览器正在引入新的指示器来传达有关不同类型证书的状态信息。我们进行了一项用户研究,将Mozilla Firefox浏览器中的拟议新界面与我们自己设计的替代界面进行了比较,以调查用户对这些新指标的反应。我们的研究包括眼睛跟踪数据,这些数据提供了有关研究期间用户倾向于看浏览器界面的哪些部分以及哪些区域未被注意的经验证据。我们的结果表明,尽管我们研究中的所有用户都未注意到未经修改的Firefox浏览器中的新界面功能,但一半以上的参与者都注意到了经过修改的设计,并且大多数用户表示一经意识到就愿意采用这些功能。他们的功能。
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