My password is here! An investigation into visuo-spatial authentication mechanisms

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1017-1041

  Renaud, Karen ^a   De Angeli, Antonella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NCR Financial Solutions Division   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Graphical mechanisms; Metrics; User authentication; Visuo spatial memory; Web authentication

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; GRAPHIC METHODS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SECURITY SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GRAPHICAL MECHANISMS; METRICS; USER AUTHENTICATION; VISUO-SPATIAL MEMORY; WEB AUTHENTICATION;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 9944240263     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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