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Visualization & Usability Group Publications - Usable Security

  1. Effects of Password Permutation on Subjective Usability Across Platforms
    Published: 8/4/2015
    Author: Kristen Greene
  2. The Authentication Equation: A Tool to Visualize the Convergence of Security and Usability of Text-Based Passwords
    Published: 8/4/2015
    Authors: Cathryn Alicia Ploehn, Kristen Greene
  3. What 4,500+ people can tell you - Employees' Attitudes toward Organizational Password Policy Do Matter
    Published: 8/2/2015
    Authors: Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Frances Theofanos
  4. Human Generated Passwords - the Impacts of Password Requirements and Presentation Styles
    Published: 8/2/2015
    Authors: Paul Y Lee, Yee-Yin Choong
  5. Tap On, Tap Off: Onscreen Keyboards and Mobile Password Entry
    Published: 5/1/2015
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Joshua M Franklin, John M Kelsey
  6. Password Entry Errors: Memory or Motor?
    Published: 4/9/2015
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Frank Tamborello
  7. ACT-R Modeling of Password Entry Errors
    Published: 4/2/2015
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Franklin Tamborello
  8. Electrodermal Activity and Eye Movements Inform the Usability of Passwords
    Published: 11/18/2014
    Authors: Jennifer Romano Bergstrom, Kristen Greene, David C. Hawkins, Christian Gonzalez
  9. An ACT-R Model of Elliptical Endpoint Error Distributions in a Mobile Touchscreen 2-D Fitts‰ Law Task
    Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
    Report Number: 8015
    Published: 10/14/2014
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Melissa A. Gallagher, Franklin Tamborello
  10. Character Strings, Memory and Passwords: What a Recall Study Can Tell Us.
    Published: 6/22/2014
    Authors: Brian C Stanton, Kristen Greene
  11. Development of a Scale to Assess the Linguistic and Phonological Difficulty of Passwords
    Published: 6/22/2014
    Authors: Jennifer Romano Bergstrom, Stefan A. Frisch, David C. Hawkins, Joy Hackenbracht, Kristen Greene, Mary Frances Theofanos, Brian Griepentrog
  12. I Can't Type That! P@$$w0rd Entry on Mobile Devices
    Published: 6/22/2014
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Melissa A. Gallagher, Brian C Stanton, Paul Y Lee
  13. A Cognitive-Behavioral Framework of User Password Management Lifecycle
    Published: 6/22/2014
    Author: Yee-Yin Choong
  14. United States Federal Employees' Password Management Behaviors ‹ a Department of Commerce case study
    Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
    Report Number: 7991
    Published: 4/8/2014
    Authors: Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Frances Theofanos, Hung-Kung Liu
  15. Support for ACT-R Modeling of Elliptical Endpoint Error Distributions in Mobile Touchscreen 2-D Fitts' Law Tasks
    Published: 4/1/2014
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Melissa A. Gallagher, Franklin Tamborello
  16. Report: Authentication Diary Study
    Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)Report Number: 7983
    Published: 2/4/2014
    Authors: Michelle Potts Steves, Mary Frances Theofanos
  17. Taxonomic Rules for Password Policies: Translating the Informal to the Formal Language
    Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
    Report Number: 7970
    Published: 12/9/2013
    Authors: Kevin Killourhy, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Frances Theofanos
  18. ACT-Touch Reference Manual, Working Draft
    Published: 8/15/2013
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Franklin Tamborello
  19. Computational Cognitive Modeling of Touch and Gesture on Mobile Multitouch Devices: Applications and Challenges for Existing Theory
    Published: 7/24/2013
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Ross J Micheals, Franklin Tamborello
  20. Initial ACT-R Extensions for User Modeling in the Mobile Touchscreen Domain
    Published: 7/12/2013
    Authors: Kristen Greene, Franklin Tamborello
  21. Usability of PIV Smartcards for Logical Access
    Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
    Report Number: 7867rev2012
    Published: 8/31/2012
    Authors: Mary Frances Theofanos, Emile L. Morse, Hannah Wald, Yee-Yin Choong, Celeste Paul, Aiping L Zhang
  22. Usability of PIV Smartcards for Logical Access
    Series: NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
    Report Number: 7867
    Published: 6/28/2012
    Authors: Emile L. Morse, Mary Frances Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong, Celeste Paul, Aiping L Zhang, Hannah Wald
  23. Basing Cybersecurity Training on User Perceptions
    Published: 4/2/2012
    Authors: Susanne M Furman, Mary Frances Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong, Brian C Stanton
  24. A Field Study of User Behavior and Perception in Smartcard Authentication
    Published: 9/9/2011
    Authors: Emile L. Morse, Celeste Lyn Paul, Aiping L Zhang, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Frances Theofanos
Created May 4, 2015, Updated October 6, 2016