Analysis of usability for the dice CAPTCHA

Abstract

This paper explores the usability of the Dice CAPTCHA via analysis of the time spent to solve the CAPTCHA, and number of tries for solving the CAPTCHA. The experiment was conducted on a set of 197 subjects who use the Internet, and are discriminated by age, daily Internet usage in hours, Internet experience in years, and type of device where a solution to the CAPTCHA is found. Each user was asked to find a solution to the Dice CAPTCHA on a tablet or laptop, and the time to successfully find a solution to the CAPTCHA for a given number of attempts was registered. Analysis was performed on the collected data via association rule mining and artificial neural network. It revealed that the time to find a solution in a given number of attempts of the CAPTCHA depended on different combinations of values of user's features, as well as the most meaningful features influencing the solution time. In addition, this dependence was explored through prediction of the CAPTCHA solution time from the user's features via artificial neural network. The obtained results are very helpful to analyze the combination of features having an influence on the CAPTCHA solution, and consequently, to find the CAPTCHA mostly complying to the postulate of "ideal" test.