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

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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.

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      TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
      January 2011
      470 pages
      ISBN:9781450304788
      DOI:10.1145/1935701

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