Innovation Contest | Safelock

We used the keyboard to biometrically authenticate a user with just eight entered characters. We measure four attributes about each keystroke, allowing us to compress a significant number of attributes within a relatively small word. These included: flight time (the interval in between each keystroke); hold time (the amount of time for which the key was held); (normalized) maximum pressure; and a curve fit to the pressure over time as a user pressed each key.

Jeff Allen - Southern Methodist University
John Howard - Southern Methodist University

ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

UIST 2009 STUDENT INNOVATION CONTEST
http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2009/call/contest.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• UIST
• 2009
• ACM
• STUDENT
• INNOVATION
• CONTEST

[pikipirs]

Say you happen to break one of your fingers. Then what?

[ismailcooltube]

did you use neural networks for machine learning?

[paulwoody]

Also I type differently on different keyboards. Obviously I am quickest on my own so that will affect the results

[ElessarUSMC]

biometric fingerprint scanners aren't nearly as secure as you might think.

[Chronos014]

Why not make a keyboard where every key has a fingerprint scanner on it =__= Or just a fingerprint scanner

[macgyver2210]

By 'Innovation' do you mean 'Stolen straight out of the pages of late author Michael Crichton's book Prey" ?

[Eagleguy125]

It's a solid product, without a doubt. I got to try it out, and these guys have made what seems to me to be a big improvement over the current iteration of this type of technology. Seeing it in motion is really interesting!

[quelorepario]

Considering it is called "innovation contest" and considering that it is not innovative at all, it should have failed. It doesn't deserve the first place at all.

[quelorepario]

It is not novel at all. It is already patented, this technology already exists and is being used by many companies: psylock, biopassword, etc...

[vbokser]

really cool work. i can see this being used.