- Assign roles and responsibilities
- Regulatory - IRB form submission
- Funding for research (i.e. additional participants, recruiting fee, etc…)
- 12 password managers
- Each password managers with 20 participants
- Survey length (~ 10 minutes)
- Compensation per participant (USD$3)
- Estimated project budget 3 x 1.4(fee) x 20 x 12 = US$1,008
- Timeline
- How long do we conduct this study?
- Quantitative evaluation of weak and reused passwords
- Evaluation of weak and reused password methodology adopted by password managers
- Qualitative evaluation of why doesn’t allow their password managers to automatically assign random passwords
- Quantitative evaluation of habit on updating the passwords stored in their password managers.
- How many survey participants to target? (N=?)
- Example: 50 LastPass users vs 10 Stickypassword users
- Research how to recruit higher-quality participants
- Qualtrics
- Prolific
- Research published studies related to Password Manager User behavior