Can background baroque music help to improve the memorability of graphical passwords?
Haichang Gao, Xiuling Chang, Zhongjie Ren, Uwe Aickelin, Liming Wang

TL;DR
This study explores whether background baroque music can enhance the memorability of graphical passwords, finding it improves long-term recall for PassPoints passwords and influences password complexity.
Contribution
It introduces the novel idea of using baroque music to aid graphical password memorability and provides empirical evidence of its effects on different password schemes.
Findings
Music improves PassPoints password recall after one week.
Participants set more complex PassPoints passwords with music.
No significant effect on DAS or Story password recall.
Abstract
Graphical passwords have been proposed as an alternative to alphanumeric passwords with their advantages in usability and security. However, they still tend to follow predictable patterns that are easier for attackers to exploit, probably due to users' memory limitations. Various literatures show that baroque music has positive effects on human learning and memorizing. To alleviate users' memory burden, we investigate the novel idea of introducing baroque music to graphical password schemes (specifically DAS, PassPoints and Story) and conduct a laboratory study to see whether it is helpful. In a ten minutes short-term recall, we found that participants in all conditions had high recall success rates that were not statistically different from each other. After one week, the music group coped PassPoints passwords significantly better than the group without music. But there was no…
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Taxonomy
TopicsUser Authentication and Security Systems · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
