Now what was that password again? A more flexible way of identifying and authenticating our seniors

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-322

  Renaud, Karen ^a   Ramsay, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authentication; Identification; Seniors

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEBSITES;

ACCESS RESTRICTED WEBSITES; ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL PROBLEM; WEB IDENTIFICATION;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 34547464301     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290601173770     Document Type: Article

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