Engaging Children About Online Privacy Through Storytelling in an Interactive Comic

Children’s privacy is put at risk through online sharing of location-based information. We study the effectiveness of an educational interactive comic on improving 11- to 13-year-old children’s privacy knowledge and behaviour immediately and one week after reading. Children’s privacy knowledge increased after reading either the comic or the text-only control, but the comic promoted superior knowledge retention a week later and was more successful at influencing children’s reported privacy behaviour than the control. Our 22 child-parent pairs found the comic facilitated learning for children, engaging, and easy to use. We discuss the implication on children’s short and long-term knowledge retention and behaviour, and the educational potential of comics at addressing the challenges of privacy and security education for children.

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Leah Zhang-Kennedy

Khadija Baig

Sonia Chiasson

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-11

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[0001]Carleton University

Ottawa, Canada

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.45

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] M. T. ChiR. Wylie 2014 The ICAP framework: Linking cognitive engagement to active learning outcomes Educational Psychologist 49 4 219 243

[2] S. ChiassonP. C. van OorschotR. Biddle 2007 Graphical password authentication using cued click points In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 359 374 Springer.

[3] CHORUS Lab 2017 Secure Comics http://versipass.com/edusec/securecomics

[4] K. CraikJ. Williams 1967 The nature of explanation 445 CUP Archive

[5] J. DempseyB. CassidyG. Sim 2016 Child-centered security In British HCI BCS e-WIC

[6] F. N. Dempster 1981 Memory span: Sources of individual and developmental differences Psychological Bulletin 89 1 63

[7] R. DhamijaA. Perrig 2000 De' ja vu - a user study: Using images for authentication USENIX Security Symposium 9 1 4

[8] S. EgelmanE. Peer 2015 Scaling the security wall: Developing a security behavior intentions scale (sebis) In Human Factors in Computing Systems 2873 2882 ACM

[9] G. FriedlandR. Sommer 2010 Cybercasing the joint: On the privacy implications of geotagging In USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security

[10] R. M. GagneW. W. WagerK. C. GolasJ. M. KellerJ. D. Russell 2005 Principles of instructional design Wiley Online Library

[11] F. P. Hughes 2009 Children, play, and development Sage

[12] D. Jacobs 2007 More than words: Comics as a means of teaching multiple literacies English Journal 19 25

[13] B. KnijnenburgD. Cherry 2016 Comics as a medium for privacy notices In Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) USENIX Association

[14] P. KumaraguruY. RheeS. ShengS. HasanA. AcquistiL. F. CranorJ. Hong 2007 Getting users to pay attention to anti-phishing education: Evaluation of retention and transfer In APWG eCrime Summit 70 81 ACM

[15] A. M. Leslie 1987 Pretense and representation: The origins of “theory of mind.” Psychological review 94 4 412

[16] M. A. Marchetto 2014 Cancer vixen: A true story Pantheon

[17] Medikidz 2016 Accessed September Medikidz: Medical information for kids http://www.medikidz.com/gb-en/

[18] A. NegreteC. Lartigue 2004 Learning from education to communicate science as a good story Endeavour 28 3 120 124

[19] A. Paivio 1991 Dual coding theory: Retrospect and current status Canadian Journal of Psychology 45 3 255

[20] J. Piaget 2002 Judgement and reasoning in the child Routledge

[21] J. R. RauschS. E. MaxwellK. Kelley 2003 Analytic methods for questions pertaining to a randomized pretest, posttest, follow-up design Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 32 3 467 486

[22] J. C. ReadS. MacFarlane 2006 Using the fun toolkit and other survey methods to gather opinions in child computer interaction in interaction design and children 81 88 ACM

[23] A. M. Rose 1958 Mental health attitudes of youth as influenced by a comic strip Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 35 3 333 342

[24] R. A. SchmidtR. A. Bjork 1992 New conceptualizations of practice: Common principles in three paradigms suggest new concepts for training Psychological Science 3 4 207 217

[25] M. SharplesR. GraberC. HarrisonK. Logan 2009 E-safety and web 2.0 for children aged 11-16 Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 25 70 84

[26] S. SrikwanM. Jakobsson 2008 Using cartoons to teach internet security Cryptologia 32 2 137 154

[27] V. Steeves 2012 Young Canadians in a wired world, phase III: Talking to youth and parents about life online

[28] K. Swan 2000 Nonprint media and technol- ogy literacy standards for assessing technology integration Journal of Educational Computing Research 23 1 85 100

[29] The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada 2016 September Social Smarts: Privacy, the internet and you https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/about-the-opc/what-we-do/awareness-campaigns-and-events/privacy-education-for-kids/social-smarts-privacy-the-internet-and-you/

[30] M. TreanorM. Mateas 2009 Newsgames: Procedural rhetoric meets political cartoons Digital Games Research Association 2009

[31] P. TurnerJ. T. Harviainen 2016 Digital Make-Believe Springer International Publishing

[32] K. L. Walton 1990 Mimesis as make-believe: On the foundations of the representational arts Harvard University Press

[33] A. WhittenJ. D. Tygar 1999 Why Johnny can’t encrypt: A usability evaluation of PGP 5.0. In USENIX Security Symposium

[34] G. Yang 2016 September Comics in education http://www.humblecomics.com/comicsedu/index.html

[35] L Zhang-KennedyS ChiassonR Biddle 2014 Stop clicking on ‘update later’: Persuading users they need up-to-date antivirus protection in Persuasive Technology 302 322 Springer

[36] L Zhang-KennedyS ChiassonR Biddle 2016 The role of instructional design in persuasion: A comics approach for improving cybersecurity International Journal of HumanComputer Interaction 32 3 215 257

[37] L. Zhang-KennedyC. MekhailY. AbdelazizS. Chiasson 2016 From nosy little brothers to stranger-danger: Children and parents’ perception of mobile threats Interaction Design and children 388 399 ACM

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