Computer Science

Virtual fingerprint - image-based authentication increases privacy for users of mouse-replacement interfaces

Document Type

Conference Paper

Abstract

Current secondary user authentication methods are imperfect. They either rely heavily on a user’s ability to remember key preferences and phrases or they involve providing authentication on multiple devices. However, malicious attacks that compromise a user’s device or discover personal information about the user are becoming more sophisticated and increasing in number. Users who rely on mouse-replacement interfaces face additional privacy concerns when monitored or assisted by caregivers. Our authentication method proposes a way of quantifying a user’s personality traits by observing his selection of images. This method would not be as vulnerable to malicious attacks as current methods are because the method is based on psychological observations that can not be replicated by anyone other than the correct user. As a preliminary evaluation, we created a survey consisting of slides of images and asked participants to click through them. The results indicated our proposed authentication method has clear potential to address these issues.

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Publication Date

2015

Volume

9178

First Page

182

Last Page

191

ISSN

0302-9743

ISBN

9783319206868

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-20687-5_18

Keywords

authentication, behavioral biometric, camera mouse, human-computer interaction, mouse-replacement interfaces, privacy, security, virtual fingerprint

APA Citation

Grindle, V., Haider, S. K., Magee, J., & van Dijk, M. (2015). Virtual fingerprint-image-based authentication increases privacy for users of mouse-replacement interfaces. In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to the Human Environment and Culture: 9th International Conference, UAHCI 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV 9 (pp. 182-191). Springer International Publishing.

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