• DOI:10.1109/SP.2010.31
Corpus ID: 14204454

How Good Are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation

@article{Bursztein2010HowGA,
  title={How Good Are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation},
  author={Elie Bursztein and Steven Bethard and C. Fabry and J. Mitchell and Dan Jurafsky},
  journal={2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy},
  year={2010},
  pages={399-413}
}

Elie Bursztein, Steven Bethard, +2 authors Dan Jurafsky

Published 2010

Computer Science

2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Captchas are designed to be easy for humans but hard for machines. However, most recent research has focused only on making them hard for machines. In this paper, we present what is to the best of our knowledge the first large scale evaluation of captchas from the human perspective, with the goal of assessing how much friction captchas present to the average user. For the purpose of this study we have asked workers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and an underground captchabreaking service to… CONTINUE READING

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