Effect of Low Literacy on Password Formation Strategy as Impediment to Participation in Modern Life: Evaluation and Intervention Tutorial

dc.contributor.advisorSummers, Kathryn
dc.contributor.advisorBlodgett, Bridget
dc.contributor.authorLivingston, Walter
dc.contributor.departmentDivision of Science, Information Arts and Technologiesen_US
dc.contributor.programInteraction Design and Information Architectureen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-18T19:42:42Z
dc.date.available2019-07-18T19:42:42Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionM.S. -- University of Baltimore, 2019
dc.descriptionThesis submitted to the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Baltimore in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Interaction Design and Information Architecture
dc.description.abstractDespite widespread acknowledgement that they are an imperfect compromise, text passwords remain the most common method of authenticating user access to digital resources. Responsible stewardship of those resources, both for the protection of the user/accountholder, and for the protection of the agencies charged with the resources’ guardianship, has dictated that secure passwords evolve to near or beyond the practical limit for humans to compose and remember them. This thesis examines the degree to which low literacy interacts with these password requirements to create a barrier to participation in commerce and government safety net services. A tutorial video intervention was evaluated for effectiveness in creating more secure, more memorable passwords.en_US
dc.format.extent118 leavesen_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2kvlr-4pxa
dc.identifier.otherUB_2019_Livingston_W
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/14399
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rightsThis item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is made available by the University of Baltimore for non-commercial research and educational purposes.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectlow literacyen_US
dc.subjectpasswordsen_US
dc.subjectauthenticationen_US
dc.titleEffect of Low Literacy on Password Formation Strategy as Impediment to Participation in Modern Life: Evaluation and Intervention Tutorialen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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