@article{zielinska_mayhorn_wogalter_2017, title={Connoted hazard and perceived importance of fluorescent, neon, and standard safety colors}, volume={65}, ISSN={["1872-9126"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.apergo.2017.07.011}, abstractNote={The perceived hazard and rated importance of standard safety, fluorescent, and neon colors are investigated.Colors are used in warnings to enhance hazard communication. Red has consistently been rated as the highest in perceived hazard. Orange, yellow, and black are the next highest in connoted hazard; however, there is discrepancy in their ordering. Safety standards, such as ANSI Z535.1, also list colors to convey important information, but little research has examined the perceived importance of colors. In addition to standard safety colors, fluorescent colors are more commonly used in warnings. Understanding hazard and importance perceptions of standard safety and fluorescent colors is necessary to create effective warnings.Ninety participants rated and ranked a total of 33 colors on both perceived hazard and perceived importance.Rated highest were the safety red colors from the American National Standard Institute (ANSI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) together with three fluorescent colors (orange, yellow, and yellow-green) from 3 M on both dimensions. Rankings were similar to ratings except that fluorescent orange was the highest on perceived hazard, while fluorescent orange and safety red from the ANSI were ranked as the highest in perceived importance.Fluorescent colors convey hazard and importance levels as high as the standard safety red colors.Implications for conveying hazard and importance in warnings through color are discussed.}, journal={APPLIED ERGONOMICS}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Zielinska, O. A. and Mayhorn, C. B. and Wogalter, M. S.}, year={2017}, month={Nov}, pages={326–334} } @article{witschey_zielinska_welk_murphy-hill_mayhorn_zimmermann_2015, title={Quantifying Developers' Adoption of Security Tools}, DOI={10.1145/2786805.2786816}, abstractNote={Security tools could help developers find critical vulnerabilities, yet such tools remain underused. We surveyed developers from 14 companies and 5 mailing lists about their reasons for using and not using security tools. The resulting thirty-nine predictors of security tool use provide both expected and unexpected insights. As we expected, developers who perceive security to be important are more likely to use security tools than those who do not. But that was not the strongest predictor of security tool use, it was instead developers' ability to observe their peers using security tools.}, journal={2015 10TH JOINT MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE AND THE ACM SIGSOFT SYMPOSIUM ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ESEC/FSE 2015) PROCEEDINGS}, publisher={ACM}, author={Witschey, Jim and Zielinska, Olga and Welk, Allaire and Murphy-Hill, Emerson and Mayhorn, Chris and Zimmermann, Thomas}, year={2015}, pages={260–271} } @article{wogalter_mayhorn_zielinska_2015, title={Use of color in warnings}, journal={Handbook of Color Psychology}, author={Wogalter, M. S. and Mayhorn, C. B. and Zielinska, O. A.}, year={2015}, pages={377–400} }