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GazeMeter: Exploring the Usage of Gaze Behaviour to Enhance Password Assessments.

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Publication date25/05/2021
Host publicationProceedings - ETRA 2021: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, Full Papers Proceedings
EditorsStephen N. Spencer
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1-12
Number of pages12
ISBN (electronic)9781450383448
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameEye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium (ETRA)
VolumePartF169256

Abstract

We investigate the use of gaze behaviour as a means to assess password strength as perceived by users. We contribute to the effort of making users choose passwords that are robust against guessing-attacks. Our particular idea is to consider also the users' understanding of password strength in security mechanisms. We demonstrate how eye tracking can enable this: by analysing people's gaze behaviour during password creation, its strength can be determined. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, we present a proof of concept study (N = 15) in which we asked participants to create weak and strong passwords. Our findings reveal that it is possible to estimate password strength from gaze behaviour with an accuracy of 86% using Machine Learning. Thus, we enable research on novel interfaces that consider users' understanding with the ultimate goal of making users choose stronger passwords.