Do cognitive styles of users affect preference and performance related to CAPTCHA challenges?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2012-January, Issue , 2012, Pages 1487-1492

  Belk, Marios ^a   Fidas, Christos ^a   Germanakos, Panagiotis ^a,b   Samaras, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

captcha challenges; cognitive styles; usable security

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERS;

CAPTCHAS; CAPTCHUM CHALLENGE; COGNITIVE STYLES; HIGH CONFIDENCE; HUMAN BEING; PERFORMANCE; REMOTE SERVICES; SECURITY MECHANISM; TURING TESTS; USABLE SECURITY;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84879848928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212776.2223660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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