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As Virtual Reality (VR) expands into fields like healthcare and education, ensuring secure and user-friendly authentication becomes essential. Traditional password entry methods in VR are cumbersome and insecure, making password managers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Emiram Kablo , Yorick Last , Patricia Arias Cabarcos , Melanie Volkamer

Social Virtual Reality (VR) platforms have surged in popularity, yet their security risks remain underexplored. This paper presents four novel UI attacks that covertly manipulate users into performing harmful actions through deceptive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Junhee Lee , Hwanjo Heo , Seungwon Woo , Minseok Kim , Jongseop Kim , Jinwoo Kim

Text-based passwords continue to be the prime form of authentication to computer systems. Today, they are increasingly created and used with mobile text entry methods, such as touchscreens and mobile keyboards, in addition to traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Yulong Yang , Janne Lindqvist , Antti Oulasvirta

This position paper explores the possibilities and challenges of using Virtual Reality (VR) in remote user studies. Highlighting the immersive nature of VR, the paper identifies key vulnerabilities, including varying technical proficiency,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Viktorija Paneva , Florian Alt

Today's virtual reality (VR) systems provide immersive interactions that seamlessly connect users with online services and one another. However, these immersive interfaces also introduce new vulnerabilities, making it easier for users to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhuolin Yang , Cathy Yuanchen Li , Arman Bhalla , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

Analyzing keystroke dynamics (KD) for biometric verification has several advantages: it is among the most discriminative behavioral traits; keyboards are among the most common human-computer interfaces, being the primary means for users to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Giuseppe Stragapede , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales , Naser Damer , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

Virtual reality (VR) telepresence applications and the so-called "metaverse" promise to be the next major medium of human-computer interaction. However, with recent studies demonstrating the ease at which VR users can be profiled and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Vivek Nair , Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Dawn Song

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a transformative technology across industries, yet its security weaknesses, including vulnerabilities, are underinvestigated. This study investigates 334 VR projects hosted on GitHub, examining 1,681…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yifan Xu , Jinfu Chen , Zhenyu Qi , Huashan Chen , Junyi Wang , Pengfei Hu , Feng Liu , Sen He

Virtual reality (VR), while enhancing user experiences, introduces significant privacy risks. This paper reveals a novel vulnerability in VR systems that allows attackers to capture VR privacy through obstacles utilizing millimeter-wave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Luoyu Mei , Ruofeng Liu , Zhimeng Yin , Qingchuan Zhao , Wenchao Jiang , Shuai Wang , Kangjie Lu , Tian He

Computers today aren't just confined to laptops and desktops. Mobile gadgets like mobile phones and laptops also make use of it. However, one input device that hasn't changed in the last 50 years is the QWERTY keyboard. Users of virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Pabbathi Sri Charan , Saksham Gupta , Satvik Agrawal , Gadupudi Sahithi Sindhu

Virtual Reality (VR) technology is rapidly growing in recent years. VR devices such as Meta Quest 3 utilize numerous sensors to collect users' data to provide an immersive experience. Due to the extensive data collection and the immersive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Vamsi Shankar Simhadri , Yichang Xiong , Habiba Farrukh , Xiaokuan Zhang

Cybersickness is a serious usability problem in virtual reality. Postural (or balance) instability theory has emerged as one of the major hypotheses for the cause of cybersickness. In this paper, we conducted a two-week-long experiment to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Seonghoon Kang , Yechan Yang , Gerard Jounghyun Kim , Hanseob Kim

Although Virtual Reality (VR) has accelerated its prevalent adoption in emerging metaverse applications, it is not a fundamentally new technology. On one hand, most VR operating systems (OS) are based on off-the-shelf mobile OS. As a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hanyang Guo , Hong-Ning Dai , Xiapu Luo , Zibin Zheng , Gengyang Xu , Fengliang He

Acoustic emanations of computer keyboards represent a serious privacy issue. As demonstrated in prior work, physical properties of keystroke sounds might reveal what a user is typing. However, previous attacks assumed relatively strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Alberto Compagno , Mauro Conti , Daniele Lain , Gene Tsudik

Adversarial noise attacks present a significant threat to quantum machine learning (QML) models, similar to their classical counterparts. This is especially true in the current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era, where noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Yanling Lin , Ji Guan , Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying , Zhaofeng Su

By focusing on immersive interaction among users, the burgeoning Metaverse can be viewed as a natural extension of existing social media. Similar to traditional online social networks, there are numerous security and privacy issues in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Ruizhi Cheng , Songqing Chen , Bo Han

Nowadays, mobile smart devices are widely used in daily life. It is increasingly important to prevent malicious users from accessing private data, thus a secure and convenient authentication method is urgently needed. Compared with common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yadong Xie , Fan Li , Yu Wang

Keystroke inference attacks are a form of side-channel attacks in which an attacker leverages various techniques to recover a user's keystrokes as she inputs information into some display (e.g., while sending a text message or entering her…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 John Lim , Jan-Michael Frahm , Fabian Monrose

Virtual Reality (VR) emphasizes immersive experiences, while text entry often requires hands or visual attention, which may disrupt the interaction flows in VR. We present AnkleType, a hand- and eye-free text-entry technique that leverages…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiyun Luo , Weirong Luo , Kening Zhu , Taizhou Chen

The SmoothLLM defense provides a certification guarantee against jailbreaking attacks, but it relies on a strict "k-unstable" assumption that rarely holds in practice. This strong assumption can limit the trustworthiness of the provided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Adarsh Kumarappan , Ayushi Mehrotra