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Usability Evaluation of Dialogue Designs for Voiceprint Authentication in Automated Telephone Banking

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  • Nancie Gunson

    (Centre for Communication Interface Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

  • Diarmid Marshall

    (Centre for Communication Interface Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

  • Fergus McInnes

    (Centre for Speech Technology Research, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

  • Hazel Morton

    (Centre for Communication Interface Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

  • Mervyn Jack

    (Centre for Communication Interface Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)

Abstract

This paper describes an empirical investigation of the usability of different dialogue designs for voiceprint authentication in automated telephone banking. Three strategies for voice authentication were evaluated in an experiment with 120 telephone banking end-users: 1-Factor (voiceprint authentication based on customers' utterances of their account number and sort code); 1-Factor with Challenge (1-Factor plus a randomly generated digit string); and 2-Factor (1-Factor plus secret information known only to the caller). The research suggests the 2-Factor approach is the most effective strategy in this context: results from a Likert questionnaire show it to be highly usable and it is rated highest in terms of both security and overall quality. Participants welcome the option to use voiceprint technology but the majority would prefer it to augment rather than replace existing security methods.

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  • Nancie Gunson & Diarmid Marshall & Fergus McInnes & Hazel Morton & Mervyn Jack, 2014. "Usability Evaluation of Dialogue Designs for Voiceprint Authentication in Automated Telephone Banking," International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), IGI Global, vol. 10(2), pages 59-77, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jthi00:v:10:y:2014:i:2:p:59-77
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