TY - GEN
T1 - An Empirical Study of Picture Password Composition on Smartwatches
AU - Belk, Marios
AU - Fidas, Christos
AU - Katsi, Eleni
AU - Constantinides, Argyris
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Recent research works suggest that human cognitive differences affect security and usability of picture passwords within a variety of interaction contexts, such as conventional desktops, smartphones, and extended reality. However, the interplay of human cognition towards users’ interaction behavior and security of picture passwords on smartwatch devices has not been investigated so far. In this paper, we report on such a research attempt that embraced a between-subjects in-lab user study (n = 50) in which users were classified according to their cognitive processing characteristics (i.e., Field Dependence-Independence cognitive differences), and further composed a picture password on a smartwatch device. Analysis of results reveal that already known effects of human cognition towards interaction behavior and security of picture passwords within conventional interaction contexts, do not necessarily replicate when these are deployed on smartwatch devices. Findings point towards the need to design for diversity and device-aware picture password schemes.
AB - Recent research works suggest that human cognitive differences affect security and usability of picture passwords within a variety of interaction contexts, such as conventional desktops, smartphones, and extended reality. However, the interplay of human cognition towards users’ interaction behavior and security of picture passwords on smartwatch devices has not been investigated so far. In this paper, we report on such a research attempt that embraced a between-subjects in-lab user study (n = 50) in which users were classified according to their cognitive processing characteristics (i.e., Field Dependence-Independence cognitive differences), and further composed a picture password on a smartwatch device. Analysis of results reveal that already known effects of human cognition towards interaction behavior and security of picture passwords within conventional interaction contexts, do not necessarily replicate when these are deployed on smartwatch devices. Findings point towards the need to design for diversity and device-aware picture password schemes.
KW - Efficiency
KW - Graphical authentication
KW - Human cognition
KW - Security
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115225345&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-85610-6_37
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-85610-6_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85115225345
SN - 9783030856090
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 655
EP - 664
BT - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021 - 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Ardito, Carmelo
A2 - Lanzilotti, Rosa
A2 - Malizia, Alessio
A2 - Malizia, Alessio
A2 - Petrie, Helen
A2 - Piccinno, Antonio
A2 - Desolda, Giuseppe
A2 - Inkpen, Kori
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021
Y2 - 30 August 2021 through 3 September 2021
ER -