An Identity Model for Providing Inclusive Services and Applications

Marco, Lourdes; Alonso, Andoni; Quemada, Juan

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“…As stated above, the eIDAS specification defines natural and legal person attributes (some of them mandatory), but this is still not enough to support the user's functional capabilities. Therefore, we propose an extension of the eIDAS user profile based on the attributes presented in our previous work [10] and summarized in Table 2.…”

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“…This could involve using a voice interface as above, although the disease is quite different. To define the list of functional attributes to extend the eIDAS MDS, we relied on our previous study [10]. Table 3 summarizes the list of attributes.…”

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“…In a previous work [10], we proposed an OAuth2.0 standard-based model for enabling inclusive contexts where users can define their functional attributes in a centralized way. Based on these attributes, services can provide interfaces adjusted to the users' identity and capabilities.…”

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User-Adapted Web Services by Extending the eIDAS Specification with Functional Attributes

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To provide web services adapted to the users’ functional capabilities, diversity must be considered from the conceptualization and design phases of the services’ development. In previous work, we proposed a model that allows the provisioning of adapted interfaces based on users’ identity and their functional attributes to facilitate this task to software designers and developers. However, being these identities and attributes self-declared by the users may impact reliability and usability. In this work, we propose an extension of our model to resolve these deficiencies by delegating the identity and attributes provision to external certified entities. The European electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services (eIDAS) regulation established a solution to ensure the cross-border mutual recognition of Electronic Identification (eID) mechanisms among the European Member States. This research aims to provide an extension of this regulation mentioned above (eIDAS) to support functional attributes and connect our previously proposed model to this extended eIDAS network. Thanks to this proposal, web services can guarantee adapted and personalized interfaces while improving the functionalities offered without any previous configuration by users and, in a reliable way, since the functional attributes belong to the users’ official eID. As the attributes set provided by eIDAS nodes only contains citizens’ personal and legal ones, we also propose a mechanism to connect the eIDAS network to external attribute providers that could extend the eIDAS profile of users with their functional attributes. We have deployed a pilot to validate the proposed model consisting of an identity provider, an eIDAS node supporting the extended reference code and an attribute provider supporting functional attributes. We have also designed and implemented a simple service that supports eID authentication and serves adapted interfaces based on the retrieved extended eIDAS profile. Finally, we have developed an experience for getting feedback from a set of real users with different functional capabilities. According to the results, we conclude that the generalized adoption of the proposed solution in the European digital web services will significantly improve their accessibility in terms of ease of use and adaptability to users’ capacities.

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“…Inclusive design is essential to creating products that target a diverse audience. User Interface (UI) designers face different challenges while designing UIs for interactive systems due to the heterogeneity, which can also result from a diversity of end users and interaction modalities [16]. Designers and developers of adaptive applications with UIs able to adapt interaction contents and information processing modes according to users' needs and disabilities especially face significant difficulties in implementing such applications that meet the dynamic of their environment [17].…”

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Identification of Challenges and Best Practices for Including Users with Disabilities in User-Based Testing

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Despite efforts to promote digital inclusion for all, individuals with disabilities continue to experience a significant digital divide. Developing usable and accessible solutions also demands conducting user-based testing with real end users, particularly for users with disabilities, to detect and address real problems and barriers they experience and improve usability and accessibility based on their feedback through a user-centered approach. When including users with disabilities in user testing, additional attention must be paid to ensure that the testing is planned and carried out in such a way as to enable the successful and efficient integration of users with disabilities. In doing so, it is necessary to consider various restrictions related to users’ disabilities. By conducting a systematic literature review, we collected and analyzed the challenges of including users with disabilities in user-based testing and best practices that researchers can apply in future user-based testing with users with disabilities. In the existing literature, a positive trend toward publishing articles describing testing with users with disabilities is noticeable. There is also an apparent need for more reporting on some phases of the testing studies. The main result of this study is a list of challenges and best practices that are important in the different phases of user-based testing with users with disabilities.

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“…Table4.3 shows the list of functional attributes included in the eIDAS MDS. The list definition relied on a previous study carried out by my colleague[172]. All of them correspond to the type NaturalPerson.…”

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Contribution to the Design and Integration of Identity Management and Access Control Mechanisms for Smart Environments

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Identity Management and Access Control mechanisms are present in practically every digital application. Companies, public administrations or universities have deployed these mechanisms to ensure that appropriate users access to the services that are entitled to them. The main objective of this integration is to protect private personal and professional information from malicious actors.Digital services have grown exponentially, forcing Identity Management models to move from a centralised to a federated approach to improve the user experience and bridge some security loopholes. Nowadays, federated identity management systems are still in use but giving users a little more control over their data. Their design and implementation poses a number of challenges that depend on the characteristics of each environment and the privacy's level required. However, people still have little control over their identity and how their information is shared between organizations. In recent years, a new paradigm in identity management has been emerging to give people autonomy over their digital identities: Self Sovereign Identity. It is at an early stage and opens up a number of opportunities and challenges.Nowadays, an increasing number of businesses are exploiting data obtained from a variety of sources. In this sense, due to the Industry 4.0 paradigm new spaces are emerging for data sharing between companies to improve production chains, and with it, new ways of controlling access to data. Traditional access control mechanisms does not fulfil the trust, governance and usage requirements that these cases need, giving rise to new challenges to be addressed. This thesis proposes a set of architectures, models and mechanisms to address the challenges identified in the scope of identity and access management and contribute to improve the security and privacy of that field. The starting point of the thesis is the design and evaluation of delegated authentication systems for non-interface and resource-constrained devices. These systems aim to improve the security of devices in these contexts and even improve their efficiency. The next step is to implement an Industry 4.0 standard for data sharing between organizations which allows to guarantee trust, data governance and secure data exchange. In this context, a model for enabling data usage control is presented. This model allows the management and definition of both access and usage control policies.Subsequently, a number of contributions are proposed in relation with European electronic IDentification and the eIDAS regulation. They enrich and simplify the authentication process for service providers and citizens. The first one extends the number of attributes of the eIDAS profile. The second extends the eIDAS basic architecture to obtain these attributes. Finally, another architecture is proposed for facilitating the integration of service providers into the eIDAS infrastructure.Finally, the new Self Sovereign Identity paradigm is approached. A study of opportunities and challenges is...

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An Identity Model for Providing Inclusive Services and Applications

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

User-Adapted Web Services by Extending the eIDAS Specification with Functional Attributes

User-Adapted Web Services by Extending the eIDAS Specification with Functional Attributes

Identification of Challenges and Best Practices for Including Users with Disabilities in User-Based Testing

Contribution to the Design and Integration of Identity Management and Access Control Mechanisms for Smart Environments

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