Multi-touch tablets allow users to interact with computers through intuitive, natural gestures and direct manipulation of digital objects. One advantage of these devices is that they can offer a large, collaborative space where several users can work on a task at the same time. However the lack of privacy in these situations makes standard password-based authentication easily compromised. This work presents a new gesture-based authentication system based on users' unique signature of touch motion. This technique has two key features. First, at each step in authentication the system prompts the user to make a specific gesture selected to maximize the expected long-term information gain. Second, each gesture is integrated using a hierarchical probabilistic model, allowing the system to accept or reject a user after a variable number of gestures. This touch-based approach would allow the user to accurately authenticate without the need to cover their hand or look over their shoulder. This method has been tested using a set of samples collected under real-world conditions in a business office, with a touch tablet that was used on a near daily basis by users familiar with the device. Despite the lack of sophisticated, high-precision equipment, the system is able to achieve high user recognition accuracy with relatively few gestures, demonstrating that human touch patterns have a distinctive signature" that can be used as a powerful biometric measure for user recognition and personalization.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/265555 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Torres Peralta, Raquel |
| Contributors | Barnard, Kobus, Cohen, Paul, Beal, Carole R., Morrison, Clay |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Electronic Dissertation |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
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