This breakout provides an opportunity to share results from user research on permission prompts, discuss methods and findings, and ideate on additional research that could help the community.
Permissions are notoriously difficult to study, given that they happen in very brief moments while users try to accomplish a primary task. Yet, they are an important security and privacy mechanism that can have substantial positive or negative impact on users' experiences on the web. The Chrome team conducted two studies to (1) understand the general experience of permission prompts on the web as well as (2) how users perceive a mechanism to make prompts less interruptive. We will share a brief overview of results from the two studies and discuss implications.
Beyond that, this forum provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences when conducting user research on security and privacy mechanisms in browsers as well as to identify new opportunities to better understand users' experiences.
Please leave comments and suggestions, for example if you also have user research in the permissions space that you would like to share or other ideas that would fit well into the scope of this breakout.
Session goal
Share user research findings on permissions, discuss best practices and ideas
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permissions-users-research
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Session description
This breakout provides an opportunity to share results from user research on permission prompts, discuss methods and findings, and ideate on additional research that could help the community.
Permissions are notoriously difficult to study, given that they happen in very brief moments while users try to accomplish a primary task. Yet, they are an important security and privacy mechanism that can have substantial positive or negative impact on users' experiences on the web. The Chrome team conducted two studies to (1) understand the general experience of permission prompts on the web as well as (2) how users perceive a mechanism to make prompts less interruptive. We will share a brief overview of results from the two studies and discuss implications.
Beyond that, this forum provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences when conducting user research on security and privacy mechanisms in browsers as well as to identify new opportunities to better understand users' experiences.
Please leave comments and suggestions, for example if you also have user research in the permissions space that you would like to share or other ideas that would fit well into the scope of this breakout.
Session goal
Share user research findings on permissions, discuss best practices and ideas
Additional session chairs (Optional)
No response
Who can attend
Anyone may attend (Default)
IRC channel (Optional)
permissions-users-research
Other sessions where we should avoid scheduling conflicts (Optional)
No response
Instructions for meeting planners (Optional)
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Agenda for the meeting.
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