Privacy Enhancing Keyboard: Design, Implementation, and Usability Testing
Joint Authors
Ling, Zhen
Borgeest, Melanie
Sano, Chuta
Fuller, Jazmyn
Cuomo, Anthony
Lin, Sirong
Yu, Wei
Fu, Xinwen
Zhao, Wei
Source
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-11-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
To protect users from numerous password inference attacks, we invent a novel context aware privacy enhancing keyboard (PEK) for Android touch-based devices.
Usually PEK would show a QWERTY keyboard when users input text like an email or a message.
Nevertheless, whenever users enter a password in the input box on his or her touch-enabled device, a keyboard will be shown to them with the positions of the characters shuffled at random.
PEK has been released on the Google Play since 2014.
However, the number of installations has not lived up to our expectation.
For the purpose of usable security and privacy, we designed a two-stage usability test and performed two rounds of iterative usability testing in 2016 and 2017 summer with continuous improvements of PEK.
The observations from the usability testing are educational: (1) convenience plays a critical role when users select an input method; (2) people think those attacks that PEK prevents are remote from them.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ling, Zhen& Borgeest, Melanie& Sano, Chuta& Fuller, Jazmyn& Cuomo, Anthony& Lin, Sirong…[et al.]. 2017. Privacy Enhancing Keyboard: Design, Implementation, and Usability Testing. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1205815
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ling, Zhen…[et al.]. Privacy Enhancing Keyboard: Design, Implementation, and Usability Testing. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1205815
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ling, Zhen& Borgeest, Melanie& Sano, Chuta& Fuller, Jazmyn& Cuomo, Anthony& Lin, Sirong…[et al.]. Privacy Enhancing Keyboard: Design, Implementation, and Usability Testing. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1205815
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1205815