Authenticity, well-being, and memorability are essential to understanding tourist experience, yet little is known about the mechanism underlying these interrelated concepts. This study explores how tourists’ perceived authenticity influences through their existential well-being in context of heritage tourism. Using data from visitors two world sites China (West Lake Lijiang), effects on psychol...

This poster presents a novel password scheme that uses lines and points of Korean vowel letters for password entry. Users may choose any Korean words or phrases and enter it parts through a simple interface, so that usability problems on password memorability and entry could be alleviated. The proposed method may be particularly fit for smartphones and be resistant to shoulder surfing. While th...

We tested the hypothesis that a route’s memorability is dependent on the frequency with which people are exposed to visual landmarks. Undergraduates learned either a route through an urban area lacking visually salient features, or a route in a neighborhood with many shops and urban objects. They were then asked to recall the learned route in the form of route directions and sketch maps. The re...

Various mechanisms for authenticating users of computer-based information systems have been proposed. These include traditional, user-selected passwords, system-generated passwords, passphrases, cognitive passwords and associative passwords. While the mechanisms employed in primary passwords are determined by the operating systems' manufacturers, system designers can select any password mechani...

This work proposes a metric for determining the suitability of guiding images for graphical passwords. This measurement is intended to favor images that encourage users to select memorable, but non-obvious password click points. The metric was developed by analyzing thousands of passwords on a small but varied image database. We found that saliency covered the most frequently clicked portions o...