Multi-touch authentication on tabletops

  • Authors:
  • David Kim;Paul Dunphy;Pam Briggs;Jonathan Hook;John W. Nicholson;James Nicholson;Patrick Olivier

  • Affiliations:
  • Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The introduction of tabletop interfaces has given rise to the need for the development of secure and usable authentication techniques that are appropriate for the co-located collaborative settings for which they have been designed. Most commonly, user authentication is based on something you know, but this is a particular problem for tabletop interfaces, as they are particularly vulnerable to shoulder surfing given their remit to foster co-located collaboration. In other words, tabletop users would typically authenticate in full view of a number of observers. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate a number of novel tabletop authentication schemes that exploit the features of multi-touch interaction in order to inhibit shoulder surfing. In our pilot work with users, and in our formal user-evaluation, one authentication scheme - Pressure-Grid - stood out, significantly enhancing shoulder surfing resistance when participants used it to enter both PINs and graphical passwords.