SMILE4VIP: Intervention to Support Visually Impaired Users Against Phishing

Phishing is an ever increasing danger that threaten both sighted and visually impaired users. Yet, most of the research in this field focuses on sighted users, even though visually impaired people are equally threatened by phishing attacks. To help visually impaired people detect phishing attacks, we propose here an initial version of a novel tool, SMILE4VIP. SMILE4VIP builds on the results obtained by other tools with sighted users, and adapt their solutions to visually impaired people. We ran a preliminary online feedback study with
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= 4 visually impaired participants to investigate their thoughts on both our tool and our study design. Although the tool was well received, we received several interesting feedback on both the tool and the study itself. We plan to implement the feedback on both, and then run a larger scale user study to determine the effectiveness of SMILE4VIP.