Pairing devices for social interactions: A comparative usability evaluation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2315-2324

  Uzun, Ersin ^a   Saxena, Nitesh ^b   Kumar, Arun ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human factors; Security

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EXPERIMENTATION; SECURE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; SECURE DEVICE PAIRING; SECURITY; SINGLE USERS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; USABILITY AND SECURITY; USABILITY EVALUATION; USER CONTROL; WIRELESS RADIOS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 79958132756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979282     Document Type: Conference Paper

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