“Disability research leads to shoulder surfing breakthrough”

From fraudwatchonline.com:

Research initially aimed at helping partially sighted customers use chip and PIN keypads has led to the creation of a device which can protect customers from “shoulder surfing”.
This is the term used for the practice whereby a “criminally motivated” bystander casually observes the PIN when paying for goods or services or getting money from [...]

Using Eye-Tracking to Stop Shoulder Surfing

An interesting new paper Reducing Shoulder-surfing by Using Gaze-based Password Entry

Abstract:
Shoulder-surfing — using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone’s shoulder, to get passwords, PINs and other sensitive personal information is a problem that has been difficult to overcome. When a user enters information using a keyboard, mouse, touch screen or any traditional input [...]