Towards making accessible human-interaction proofs more secure and usable

Hakan Ezgi Kiziloz; Kemal Bicakci

doi:10.1109/ISCC.2015.7405581

Towards making accessible human-interaction proofs more secure and usable

Hakan Ezgi Kiziloz, Kemal Bicakci

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Human-Interaction Proof (HIP) systems are widely used to prevent malicious acts of abusers. Legitimate users, however, are not satisfied with their ease of use. The response of Google to the complaints of difficulty in solving audio reCAPTCHAs was to introduce a much simpler version. But now we are back at the position where we have an accessible and usable but insecure solution. In this work, we propose a pure-Text HIP system as an attempt to satisfy accessibility, security, usability requirements altogether. We conduct a user study involving 31 blind or partially sighted users which compares the usability of our pure-Text HIP system (SMARTCHA) against Google's new audio reCAPTCHA. The results of the user study show that visually impaired users enjoy solving SMARTCHA more and prefer it against audio reCAPTCHA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	607-612
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467371940
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2015.7405581
Publication status	Published - 11 Feb 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2015 - Larnaca, Cyprus Duration: 6 Jul 2015 → 9 Jul 2015

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Volume	2016-February
ISSN (Print)	1530-1346

Conference

Conference	20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2015
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Larnaca
Period	6/07/15 → 9/07/15

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© 2015 IEEE.

Keywords

Computers
Engines
Google
Hip
Security
Speech
Usability

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Kiziloz, H. E., & Bicakci, K. (2016). Towards making accessible human-interaction proofs more secure and usable. In 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2015 (pp. 607-612). Article 7405581 (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications; Vol. 2016-February). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2015.7405581

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Kiziloz, HE & Bicakci, K 2016, Towards making accessible human-interaction proofs more secure and usable. in 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2015., 7405581, Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, vol. 2016-February, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 607-612, 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2015, Larnaca, Cyprus, 6/07/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2015.7405581

Towards making accessible human-interaction proofs more secure and usable. / Kiziloz, Hakan Ezgi; Bicakci, Kemal.
20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 607-612 7405581 (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications; Vol. 2016-February).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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