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An exploratory study of children's online password behaviours

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Sumbal Maqsood,

Robert Biddle,

Sana Maqsood,

Sonia ChiassonAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '18: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 539 - 544

https://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3210772

Published: 19 June 2018 Publication History

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With increasing use of technology and the Internet among children, we explore how they create passwords to protect their personal information. We conducted a study with children 11 to 13 years to understand their password practices. The results of the study indicated that these children create simple passwords consisting of their personal information, believe that these passwords are hard for a stranger to guess and do not have good understanding of creating strong passwords.

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IDC '18: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2018

789 pages

ISBN:9781450351522

DOI:10.1145/3202185

Conference Chairs:
Michail N. Giannakos
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Letizia Jaccheri
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Monica Divitini
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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