JSE_V8_N3_RP2 Narayanan Prasanth N. Azarudeen K. Gulam Ahamed Kabeer M. Gulam Peer Mohamed J. Journal on Software Engineering 2230–7168 8 3 26 30 Graphical Password, Authentication, Cued click points, Persuasive Technology This paper introduces and presents the result of a systemic study of the persuasive cued click point graphical password scheme, including usability and security evaluation and implementation consideration. An important usability goal for the knowledge-based authentication system is to support user in selecting a better password thus increasing security by expanding the effective password space. They use persuasion to influence user choice in click based graphical password, encouraging users to select more random and hence more difficult to guess click-points. January - March 2014 Copyright © 2014 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=2809