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Alexander De Luca, Bernhard Frauendienst
A Privacy-Respectful Input Method for Public Terminals
In NordiCHI 2008: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lund, Sweden, October 20 - 22, 2008. ACM, New York, NY, 455-458. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1463160.1463218, ISBN 978-1-59593-704-9. (bib)

Nowadays, people often have to input information on public terminals. By doing so, they might disclose information to strangers looking over their shoulders. In this paper we introduce a new way of interacting with public terminals, which offers more privacy by using a personal mobile device to enter private data. It allows the users to choose which information is to be regarded personal, which can then be entered on their mobile device and is hidden from the screen accordingly. Furthermore we created a prototype and conducted a user study measuring usersÕ input performance and to collect opinions about the systemÕs usability and practical value. The paper concludes with some ideas to make the system even more useful.