In this episode, we talk about:

• Where the fields of cognitive psychology, security, and user experience meet.
• Why Jeremiah and his team chose to investigate graphical authentication.
• How they cleverly incorporated testing both usability and security in their two-part study.
• The importance of research around learnability: is it easy for users to learn how to use your new authentication schema?

Read Jeremiah’s research: Usability Comparison of Over-the-Shoulder Attack Resistant Authentication Schemes. 

Jeremiah is the Director of Human Factors, Ph.D. Track and Associate Professor of Psychology and the School of Cybersecurity at Old Dominion University. He runs the Psychology of Design Laboratory, which focuses on human cognition and technology, including usable security.