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What's on Users' Minds? Toward a Usable Smart Phone Security Model
April-June 2009 (vol. 8 no. 2)
pp. 32-39
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Alessandra Toninelli, Rebecca Montanari, Ora Lassila, Deepali Khushraj, "What's on Users' Minds? Toward a Usable Smart Phone Security Model," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 32-39, April-June, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MPRV.2009.39,
author = {Alessandra Toninelli and Rebecca Montanari and Ora Lassila and Deepali Khushraj},
title = {What's on Users' Minds? Toward a Usable Smart Phone Security Model},
journal ={IEEE Pervasive Computing},
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issn = {1536-1268},
year = {2009},
pages = {32-39},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2009.39},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Alessandra Toninelli, University of Bologna
Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna
Ora Lassila, Nokia Services
Deepali Khushraj, Nokia, USA
Smart phones pose new challenges to usable security. Current means of specifying security policies or preferences for resource sharing are either woefully inadequate or too hard to use. This article presents a policy model approach toward usable security for smart phones. In particular, the approach adopts a semantic-based policy representation to help users' understanding of security policies and to better reflect what users really want. Furthermore, given the special nature of smart phones' usage, social awareness plays an important role. In this regard, the authors present propose a socially-aware policy reasoning model based on the results of a user study.

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Index Terms:
smart phones, security, smart phone security
Citation:
Alessandra Toninelli, Rebecca Montanari, Ora Lassila, Deepali Khushraj, "What's on Users' Minds? Toward a Usable Smart Phone Security Model," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 32-39, April-June 2009, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2009.39
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