Scientific Research Papers

We publish research papers each year and present our work in a wide range of venues aiming to advance the state of the art in HCI, Usable Security, Intelligent User Interfaces and Personalization research.

2021

Constantinides, A., Fidas, C., Belk, M., Pietron, A., Han, T., Pitsillides, A. (2021). From hot-spots towards experience-spots: Leveraging on users' sociocultural experiences to enhance security in cued-recall graphical authentication. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Impact Factor: 3.16), 149, Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102602

2020

Constantinides, A., Belk, M., Fidas, C., Pitsillides, A. (2020). An eye gaze-driven metric for estimating the strength of graphical passwords based on image hotspots. ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2020), ACM Press, 33-37 (16% acceptance rate). https://doi.org/10.1145/3377325.3377537

Costi, A., Belk, M., Fidas, C., Constantinides, A., Pitsillides, A. (2020). CogniKit: An extensible tool for human cognitive modeling based on eye gaze analysis. ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2020), ACM Press, 130-131 https://doi.org/10.1145/3379336.3381460


2019

Constantinides, A., Fidas, C., Belk, M., Pitsillides, A. (2019). "I recall this picture": Understanding picture password selections based on users' sociocultural experiences. ACM Web Intelligence (WI 2019), ACM Press, 408-412. https://doi.org/10.1145/3350546.3352557

Fidas, C., Belk, M., Hadjidemetriou, G., Pitsillides, A. (2019). Influences of mixed reality and human cognition on picture passwords: An eye tracking study. IFIP TC13 Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2019), Springer-Verlag, 304-313. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_19

Constantinides, A., Belk, M., Fidas, C., Pitsillides, A. (2019). On the accuracy of eye gaze-driven classifiers for predicting image content familiarity in graphical passwords. ACM User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019), ACM Press, 201-205. https://doi.org/10.1145/3320435.3320474


2018

Constantinides, A., Fidas, C., Belk, M., & Samaras, G. (2018). On sociocultural-centered graphical passwords: An initial framework. ACM SIGCHI Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2018), ACM Press, 277-284. https://doi.org/10.1145/3236112.3236150

Constantinides, A., Belk, M., Fidas, C., & Samaras, G. (2018). On cultural-centered graphical passwords: Leveraging on users’ cultural experiences for improving password memorability. ACM SIGCHI User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), ACM Press, 245-249. https://doi.org/10.1145/3209219.3209254

Katsini, C., Fidas, C., Raptis, G., Belk, M., Samaras, G., & Avouris, N. (2018). Influences of human cognition and visual behavior on password security during picture password composition. ACM SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018), ACM Press, paper 87. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173661

Katsini, C., Fidas, C., Raptis, G., Belk, M., Samaras, G., & Avouris, N. (2018). Eye gaze-driven prediction of cognitive differences during graphical password composition. ACM SIGCHI Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017), ACM Press, 147-152. https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3172996


2017

Belk, M., Fidas, C., Germanakos, P., & Samaras, G. (2017). The interplay between humans, technology and user authentication: a cognitive processing perspective. Computers in Human Behavior (Impact Factor: 4.252), 76, Elsevier, 184-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.06.042

Belk, M., Pamboris, A., Fidas, C., Katsini, C., Avouris, N., & Samaras, G. (2017). Sweet-spotting security and usability for intelligent graphical authentication mechanisms. ACM Web Intelligence (WI 2017), ACM Press, 252-259. https://doi.org/10.1145/3106426.3106488

Belk, M., Fidas, C., Katsini, C., Avouris, N., & Samaras, G. (2017). Effects of human cognitive differences on interaction and visual behavior in graphical user authentication. IFIP TC13 Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2017), Springer-Verlag, 287-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_19

Raptis, G., Katsini, C., Belk, M., Fidas, C., Samaras, G., & Avouris, N. (2017). Using eye gaze data and visual activities to infer human cognitive styles: Method and feasibility studies. ACM SIGCHI User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2017), ACM Press, 164-173. https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079690

Katsini, C., Fidas, C., Belk, M., Avouris, N., & Samaras, G. (2017). Influences of users’ cognitive strategies on graphical password composition. ACM SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2017), ACM Press, 2698-2705. https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053217