The phone lock: audio and haptic shoulder-surfing resistant PIN entry methods for mobile devices

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Bianchi;Ian Oakley;Vassilis Kostakos;Dong Soo Kwon

  • Affiliations:
  • KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea;Madeira-ITI, Funchal, Portugal;Madeira-ITI, Funchal, Portugal;KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Tangible user interfaces are portals to digital information. In the future, securing access to such material will be an important concern. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a PIN entry system based on audio or haptic cues that is suitable for integration into such physical systems. The current implementation links movements on a mobile phone touch screen with the display of non-visual cues; selection of a sequence of these cues composes a password. Studies reveal the validity of this approach in terms of task times and error rates that improve over prior art. In sum, this paper demonstrates the potential of non-visual PINs as a mechanism for securing access to a range of systems, ultimately incorporating mobile, ubiquitous or tangible interfaces.