United States Naval Academy

"Pretty Close to a Must-Have:" Balancing Usability Desire and Security Concern in Biometric Adoption

We report on a qualitative inquiry among security-expert and non-expert mobile device users about the adoption of biometric authentication using semi-structured interviews(n=38, 19/19 expert/non-expert). Security experts more readily adopted biometrics than non-experts but also harbored greater distrust towards its us…