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Logins & Passwords - What Users Want

Discussion

The results from the experiment do not show a significant difference in the registration times when comparing either the short versus the long form, or the simple versus the complex password. A much larger sample of users would be useful in better determining the impact of the different forms and the different passwords. Without a larger sample, it is hard to get an accurate audience sample. The error rates and completion times would be likely to shoot up drastically for people without much computer experience.

The results from the subjective questionnaires show that the test subjects preferred the easier password and the simple form. This was expected in the case of the password but not entirely so with the simple form. The simple form showed the user all of the fields that he or she needed to fill out on a single page, while the complex form gave the user the fields over three pages. According to the results, the hypothesis did not hold true for the differing registration times and log-in times. However, since there was a mean difference between the various times, it might merely be a matter of not having run the experiment enough times.

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