[BNM] Anonymous user identification

[Luke Burstow]

>The next thing to consider would be the image itself,  you'd need
>something appealing to both sexes and across a reasonably broad age
>range; 5 - 11 years old...

Could you not present multiple (tiled?) images and have part of the
'password' be by which image(s) they selected?

Would allow self selected differentiation by gender and age.

Cheers

Luke

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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Jay Caines-Gooby
Sent: 15 May 2008 10:34
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Anonymous user identification

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Jenni Lloyd <jenni.lloyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> coming to this late and from the digest, so didn't catch the beginning of
> the thread...
>
> The assumption that kids aren't used to passwords is naive - they're all*
> members of webkinz, moshi monsters, club penguin and busy juggling
multiple
> online identities - from 5 or 6 years old (scary though it might seem).
The
> problem is that they pick really simple passwords - 1122334455 etc. which
> are bound to be duplicated. I like the auto generation idea especially
with
> the combinations of simple words to build mind pictures. You could take
this
> further perhaps and present it pictorially, so kids have to remember a
> combination of images as opposed to words - that gets over the problem of
> early readers with difficulty in spelling.

Jason Bailey suggested something along the same lines, but I wasn't
sure what the limitations would be on the password space, plus the UI
would need to be pretty simple.

>  Along the same lines, I saw an
> interesting example of pictorial logins called pass clicks. The idea is
that
> a user chooses 5 points within a picture on which to click, which are then
> recorded and act as a password
> http://labs.mininova.org/passclicks/

That's really interesting! And a bit of digging shows that there's a
lot of interesting pictorial password research going on:

http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~rachna/press/economist.pdf
http://www.passfaces.com
http://research.microsoft.com/displayarticle.aspx?id=417
http://openid.net/pipermail/general/2007-November/003729.html
http://www.inkblotpassword.com
http://research.microsoft.com/users/darkok/projectssyscli.htm
http://research.microsoft.com/users/darkok/papers/sec2006.pdf

Your passclicks example and the last two MS URLs show that actually
even with a small image you can have a large password space.

The next thing to consider would be the image itself,  you'd need
something appealing to both sexes and across a reasonably broad age
range; 5 - 11 years old...

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