We propose a suite of user interface widgets to intuitively inform a user of a mobile device's sense of comfort at the user's proposed actions.

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Security is an interesting area, one in which we may well be guilty of misunderstanding the very people we are working for whilst trying to protect them. It is often said that people (users) are a weak link in the security chain. This may be true, but there are nuances. In this chapter, the authors discuss some of the work they have done and are doing to help users understand their information and device security and make informed, guided, and responsible decisions. This includes Device Comfort, Annoying Technologies, and Ten Commandments for designers and implementers of security and trust systems. This work is exploratory and unfinished (it should in fact never be finished), and this chapter presents a step along the way to better security users.

Part 2: Full PapersInternational audienceAs part of the Device Comfort paradigm, we envision a mobile device which, armed with the information made available by its sensors, is able to recognize whether it is being used by its owner or whether its owner is using the mobile device in an “unusual” manner. To this end, we conjecture that the use of a mobile device follows diurnal patterns and introduce a method for the detection of such anomalies in the use of a mobile device. We evaluate the accuracy of our method with two publicly available data sets and show its feasibility on two mobile devices

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