Multi-touch authentication on tabletops

David Kim; Paul Dunphy; Pam Briggs; Jonathan David Hook; John Nicholson; James Nicholson; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/1753326.1753489

Multi-touch authentication on tabletops

David Kim, Paul Dunphy, Pam Briggs, Jonathan David Hook, John Nicholson, James Nicholson, Patrick Olivier

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Abstract

The introduction of tabletop interfaces has given rise to the need for the development of secure and usable authentication techniques that are appropriate for the co-located collaborative settings for which they have been designed. Most commonly, user authentication is based on something you know, but this is a particular problem for tabletop interfaces, as they are particularly vulnerable to shoulder surfing given their remit to foster co-located collaboration. In other words, tabletop users would typically authenticate in full view of a number of observers. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate a number of novel tabletop authentication schemes that exploit the features of multi-touch interaction in order to inhibit shoulder surfing. In our pilot work with users, and in our formal user-evaluation, one authentication scheme - Pressure-Grid - stood out, significantly enhancing shoulder surfing resistance when participants used it to enter both PINs and graphical passwords.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1093-1102
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-929-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753489
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010 - Atlanta, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2010 → 15 Jun 2010

Conference

Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta
Period	10/06/10 → 15/06/10

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