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      The Effect of Users’ Working Memory on Preference and Performance in Authentication Mechanisms

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      The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
      Human Computer Interaction
      12 - 14 September 2012
      Authentication Mechanism, Working Memory, Usability, Preference, Performance
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            Abstract

            An effective authentication mechanism should embrace both security and usability aspects as its purpose is to provide maximum protection of application providers’ assets but as well usability and transparency to its end users, aiming to minimize cognitive overloads. With the aim to investigate the relation among users’ working memory capacity and different types of authentication mechanisms, a study was conducted which entailed a psychometric-based survey for identifying users’ working memory capacity, combined with a real usage scenario with two variations of authentication mechanisms. A total of 97 users participated in the reported study during a 5-month period providing interesting insights with respect to users’ working memory and preference and performance of authentication mechanisms.

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            Conference
            September 2012
            September 2012
            : 1-4
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            [0001]University of Cyprus

            1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.62
            bdc9d771-037c-47c6-931c-4c798221c59a
            © Marios Belk et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction
            HCI
            26
            Birmingham, UK
            12 - 14 September 2012
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Human Computer Interaction
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.62
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Authentication Mechanism,Preference,Working Memory,Performance,Usability

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