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Principles for Designing Authentication Mechanisms for Young Children: Lessons Learned from KidzPass

Renaud, Karen; Volkamer, Melanie 1; Mayer, Peter ORCID iD icon 1; Grimm, Rüdiger
1 Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract (englisch):

Young children routinely authenticate themselves with alphanumeric passwords but are probably not ready to use such passwords due to their emerging literacy and immaturity. They might adopt insecure coping tactics, which could become entrenched. Because children have a superior pictorial recognition ability, graphical authentication mechanisms will likely represent more suitable mechanisms for this demographic. We propose and study KidzPass, a configurable graphical authentication framework that one can use to tailor these mechanisms for children of different ages. We carried out two empirical investigations with four- to five-year-old children and with six- to seven-year-old children using personalized images as secrets (familiar faces and self-drawn doodles). KidzPass proved efficacious and our younger (four- to seven-year-old) participants mostly preferred it to text passwords. The personalized images maximize memorability but take significant time to obtain. As children mature, it might be possible to replace personalized images with generic images. Thus, we carried out a final empirical study with older children using generic images (that we chose). ... mehr


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Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00155
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB)
Kompetenzzentrum für angewandte Sicherheitstechnologie (KASTEL)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsdatum 30.12.2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1944-3900
KITopen-ID: 1000144473
HGF-Programm 46.23.01 (POF IV, LK 01) Methods for Engineering Secure Systems
Erschienen in AIS transactions on human-computer interaction
Verlag Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Band 13
Heft 4
Seiten 407-430
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